the Oval Office

noun

: the office of the U.S. President in the White House

Examples of the Oval Office in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Just when Americans had all but forgotten about the senescent apparition haunting the Oval Office, Joe Biden wanders aimlessly in from the wings to remind the voting public of its resolve to usher him out of public life forever. Noah Rothman, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024 This is the groupie-in-chief who couldn’t wait to get selfies in the Oval Office with supporters like Mike Love and Kanye West. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024 Those darker predictions may not come to pass, but whoever wins the Oval Office will have to deal with a media industry that’s desperate to keep merging. Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024 The rally comes as Election Day nears and puts a metric with high accuracy in forecasting the results of the presidential election: If the S&P rises in the three-month period leading up to the election, the incumbent party has almost always retained the Oval Office. Derek Saul, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Oval Office 

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“The Oval Office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Oval%20Office. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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