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- noun Plural form of
elliptical .
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Examples
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"I call ellipticals feel-good machines because it's really easy to get on and ho-hum your workout," said Douglass, who is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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"I call ellipticals feel-good machines because it's really easy to get on and ho-hum your workout," said Douglass, who is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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In a telephone news conference on Wednesday and a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature, Marat Gilfanov and his colleague, Akos Bogdan, both of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, said that for at least one class of galaxies in the universe, the roundish conglomerations of older, redder stars known as ellipticals, these supernovas are mostly produced by collisions.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2010
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In a telephone news conference on Wednesday and a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature, Marat Gilfanov and his colleague, Akos Bogdan, both of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, said that for at least one class of galaxies in the universe, the roundish conglomerations of older, redder stars known as ellipticals, these supernovas are mostly produced by collisions.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2010
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In a telephone news conference on Wednesday and a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature, Marat Gilfanov and his colleague, Akos Bogdan, both of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, said that for at least one class of galaxies in the universe, the roundish conglomerations of older, redder stars known as ellipticals, these supernovas are mostly produced by collisions.
Free Internet Press 2010
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In a telephone news conference on Wednesday and a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature, Marat Gilfanov and his colleague, Akos Bogdan, both of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, said that for at least one class of galaxies in the universe, the roundish conglomerations of older, redder stars known as ellipticals, these supernovas are mostly produced by collisions.
NYT > Global Home By DENNIS OVERBYE 2010
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Cross-training machines, also known as ellipticals, offer similar calorie burning benefits to jogging, but without the injury to back, knees, hips or ankles.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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With treadmills and ellipticals, if you pay more, you might get more features and sturdier construction, she says.
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Among the "ellipticals"—the people who vaporize—are Shaq, Greta Van Susteren and the pope.
Into Thin Air Alexander Theroux 2011
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At my gym, exalted banks of television sets loom high in the sky above the ellipticals and treadmills, the story of our collective American state of mind, beaming down at me on all channels.
Diana Castle: Tell-A-Vision Diana Castle 2011
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