arcade
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And that’s when the idea for “Pinball Wizard” came to the songwriter, who used to play pinball at the local arcade with Cohn and The Who’s producer Kit Lambert.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Four other arcade games still remain on the mini-game section of the White House website.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
On a recent Tuesday at the Gatcha arcade in Manhattan’s Koreatown, Yokerathinam pointed out a machine stocked with Pikachu plushies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
We might get some candy to really feel the arcade vibes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
A bunch of stuffed animals hung from his belt—the huge kind you get for grand prizes at an arcade.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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Games stocked with luxe toys and more are taking over arcades, and operators actually want customers to grab the goods—at least once or twice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Plus, claw arcades bring life back to malls and the FTC says dynamic pricing requires disclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Reductions to tax relief for vape shops and gambling arcades will help to pay for the £100 million a year cost of the measure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Eleri said it eventually became a business and she made £35,000 in profit before opening the shop in one of Cardiff's arcades this week.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Since the dawn of the OASIS, thousands of elderly users had come here and painstakingly coded virtual replicas of local arcades they remembered from their childhood, thus making them a permanent part of the museum.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Scenes of piazzas, arcaded streets and markets float through this podcast with Kathy McCabe, the host of the PBS “Dream of Italy” series.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014
History and Coffee During the Roman era, some 20,000 spectators would fill the stone seats of the arcaded amphitheater in what is now Piazza Sant’Oronzo.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
There are two streets which are arcaded, where activities are limited, eg preventing the playing of radios or busking.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2012
The streets are as a rule arcaded, and this characteristic has been preserved in modern additions, which have on the whole been made with considerable taste, as have also the numerous restorations of medieval buildings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Of the original organ the loft only remains, the Gothic balustrading of which is pierced with Flamboyant arcading.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round the chevet on a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
The very simple rose-window, between two lines of superimposed arcading, is protected, in the Champagne style, by a relieving-arch.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
On one side of the lunette is a panel representing the Virgin kneeling beneath the open arcading of a temple, and on the opposite side a similar panel containing the Archangel Gabriel.
From Great Masters in Painting: Perugino by George C. Williamson
In this case the arcading has been altered to accommodate this obviously later addition, made probably in the early part of the fifteenth century.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton
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