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At a Knicks–Pacers game, she took photos of everything on a digital camera, and she wore nonrecording oval cat-eye sunglasses on her Citi Bike date with Timothée Chalamet.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Critically, the oval shape allowed it to occupy less stage depth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
With her full, oval face framed by a veil, she bears a strong resemblance to the Rebecca in the roughly contemporary “Isaac Rejecting Esau,” one of Giotto’s most celebrated works in the upper church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
A keen Chelsea fan, she played football alongside her rugby until a move to Hartpury College and its dedicated rugby programme at 16 focused her exclusively on all matters oval.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
She scoops it out spoonful by spoonful and creates a huge mound on a long oval platter.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
The Pettit National Ice Center, in Milwaukee, is one of two Olympic-grade long-track ovals in the entire U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
The orange ovals here show how a perfect circle on the globe is distorted depending on where it is located.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
Schumacher will compete in his first oval races, with six ovals on the 17-race IndyCar schedule, including the feature Indianapolis 500 next May 24.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
The Earth-size ovals, which are visible only at ultraviolet wavelengths, are embedded in layers of stratospheric haze that cap the planet's poles.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Thanks to the wagering ban, the only places for it to go were seedy tracks, backwater ovals so small they were called “bullrings,” and dirt roads, but this was Irwin’s kind of racing.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
