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arch

[ahrch] / ɑrtʃ /


NOUN
curve, curved structure
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The lyric soprano Katarzyna Wietrzny sings her in an arch scene played for laughs where something more grotesque seems called for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Others include the construction of a massive White House ballroom that required demolishing the entire historic East Wing, overhauling the Kennedy Center arts venue and plans for an immense triumphal arch.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

I passed beneath an unobtrusive white arch that, I later learned, uses artificial intelligence to detect weapons and notify guards nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Thousands of people have liked and commented on the NPS social media post about the arch's collapse, including sharing their memories of visiting the arch and posting photos of it.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

When I first come in, she’s sitting forward, rubbing the arch of one foot.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Its pale walls and pointed arches remain intact, its courtyard still lined with green-and-white tiles.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

As for the interiors, Mahlum envisions colorful spaces with mosaic tiles, statement bathrooms, rounded arches, and plenty of room for everyone to gather.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Its three open-spandrel arches were made using Portland cement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Chandeliers, poetry and flower arches decorate a government marriage registry, and officials hope baby carriages will follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He saw them behind her, through the arcade, and as Weep’s dead answered Minya’s call, moving toward the arches that had for fifteen years stood open between garden and gallery, Lazlo closed them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

It is felt most strongly in the memorial garden on the site of the fallen school, and among the white arched monuments of the cemetery.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Metres away, other photographers yelled instructions to ornately dressed young women who held their fingers in victory signs and arched their backs for the camera.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The old factory at 120 Jefferson Northeast, a sand-colored brick building with its distinctive arched entryway, had gone out of business, and quickly.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Neoclassical busts are cast in sand, marble and bronze and carved through with winding stairs, arched doors and regal columns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Clytius roared and arched his back, waddling away from her.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

To enter the painting, we must either scale the long, arching slopes of Rembrandt’s broad torso or, by a leap of faith, dive into the inky blackness of his midsection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

A map of the routes with arrows arching across the country gave the operation its arachnid moniker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Tuesday’s home run, hit on an arching line to the left-center-field bullpen, served as a long-awaited first example.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Music thumped from a makeshift DJ booth, as Zsilas Hughes got the ball started — first kicking up a leg, arching it behind, then gracefully spinning and dipping before landing in graceful death drop.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

The bridge, that is, arching slow and high into space, between silence and nothingness where lights—yellow and red and green—trembled in the clear air, repeating themselves.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner


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