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a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.

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Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

He attended White House strategy sessions on Vietnam and Israel; a private phone line linked his court office to the Oval Office.
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His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”
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Do Americans prefer a stressed out president — no fun, no sun, no life outside of the Oval Office or the Situation Room?
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Her eyes dart through oval, wire-rimmed glasses that rest gently on her round cheeks.
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These types of comments coming from the White House, from the Oval Office, it takes your breath away.
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In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
In the centre of the room is an oval table; some dozen men are sitting at it; as many more stand behind their chairs.
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Each contains a single round or oval nucleus, often located eccentrically.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Generally, the ends are rounded and the striations faint, or only irregularly round or oval yellow masses are found.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
They are asymmetrically oval, about 50 in length, and often contain a partially developed embryo.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd