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ellipse

[ih-lips] / ɪˈlɪps /




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There is also a separate viewing party on the Ellipse that could draw as many as 50,000 people, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

His address on the Ellipse was delivered as Congress was set to certify the 2020 election results for the winner, Joe Biden.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Her speech on the Ellipse reflects a strategic shift in the last weeks before Election Day.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2024

I was meeting with Axelrod and Rozman Kendler, the export administration chief, at the Commerce Department building, in an office overlooking the Ellipse in downtown Washington, D.C.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023

And this point I is easy to determine, since it is needful only to draw from the point T, which is in the plane of this Ellipse, the tangent TI, in the way shown previously.

From Treatise on Light by Huygens, Christiaan




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