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One's beginning online reports about new shapes (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oblongs

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'shapes' is the definition.
(oblong is a kind of shape)

'one's beginning online reports about new' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'online' could be 'on' (similar in meaning) and 'on' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for oblongs that I've seen is " Rectangles".)

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