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in the oven

in the oven prepositional phrase: in development.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (figuratively, informal) In development.
    • We slipped the release date six months, I mean, we had to, OK? But even then, it needed more time in the oven.2023 July 25, Paul Tozour, The Four Swords: A Parable of Leadership, Video Games, and Dead Dragons, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 329

Questions about in the oven

What does in the oven mean?
In the oven means in development.
What part of speech is in the oven?
In the oven is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the oven in the dictionary

  1. in the nude
  2. in the offing
  3. in the old times
  4. in the open
  5. in the original German
  6. in the oven
  7. in the palm of one's hand
  8. in the pay of
  9. in the person of
  10. in the picture
  11. in the pink

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