oblong
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Oblong faces with longer foreheads are suited for more narrow styles.
From Golf Digest • Jun. 26, 2018
Oblong in shape, they were dark brown and chipped with age.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2016
Oblong and ethereal without sacrificing hooks or melody, the group's first single in five years mixes synthetic rhythms with Carla Azar's steady if restrained voice and enough melody to make it sticky.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2015
Gesture-based computing John Underkoffler, the MIT scientist who created the gesture-based computing that Cruise used in Minority Report, has developed his own company – Oblong Industries – to make it real and market it.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2010
The population was congregated from Long Island and Massachusetts settlements, by the tidings of the opening of this fertile land of the Oblong for settlement in 1731.
From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Wilson, Warren H. (Warren Hugh)
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