the Oval Office

noun

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

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President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025 Japan and peers now have a sense of what Trump’s expecting when Ishiba visits the Oval Office. William Pesek, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 The Democratic governor was in the Oval Office when Trump signed executive orders targeting a law firm that represented Dominion Voting Systems in its $787 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News over false claims about the 2020 election. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025 The president took them through the residence, showing off the Lincoln Bedroom and the Yellow Oval Room while regaling the group with historical facts, and finished the jaunt in the Oval Office. Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 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 22 Apr. 2025.

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