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The event is being managed by the organizers of the IndyCar championship, the US motorsport whose cars resemble Formula One vehicles but often compete on oval tracks, including at the flagship Indianapolis 500 race.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
The human doctor with 40 years of experience was right—the small oval in my right breast didn’t look “suspicious.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
The grass on the oval at Iona was soft and I wasn’t really hurt.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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 dark ovals, when seen, are almost always located just below the bright auroral zones at each pole, which are akin to Earth's northern and southern lights.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Huge ovals of sweat seeped through the backs of their shirts.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
