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The shadow cast when the Moon blots out the Sun will begin in Russia's remote Arctic north at around 1700 GMT and continue in an arc over Greenland and Iceland.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
That work ethic was essential for her Season 3 arc, which found Williams facing some of the toughest acting challenges of her career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“We read to find better ways of being ourselves, and that arc really exemplifies it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The only dance record on the shortlist, Nia Archives' second album traces the arc of a relationship from the first flush of love to a breakup so ugly that her partner calls the police.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The creature is incredibly agile, though, easily jumping over the arc of the swing and making its way toward the stairs on its hand-feet.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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No matter the strengths of AI, a chatbot cannot dream up stories with flawed characters and themes and arcs and failures and triumphs—with ambiguous finales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The film is Marvel's last big-screen outing before Doomsday, the long-awaited culmination of multiple superhero story arcs after Avengers: Endgame.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The same mechanism could help explain why hydrothermal sulfide deposits along submarine island arcs often contain unusually large amounts of gold.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Scenes animated in hand-drawn style are designed to bring Bonnie’s imagination to life, recreating the vivid magic of designing entire stories and character arcs for toys during playtime.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
She sped up into the cloud where Chup was cutting arcs and circles.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Suddenly, the whale’s dark body arced above the surface before diving down to reveal its tail, or fluke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Bath were shocked as Ramm powered through a gap between defenders and arced away from the covering Bailey to score the home side's third try in fewer than 15 minutes.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
It arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching into the sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
Experts who watched videos showing downed power lines agreed wire that was insulated would not have arced and sparked, igniting a line of flame.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
Arrows from the west slope arced and flew down the east slope.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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The ultra-fast missiles travel on a high arcing trajectory before crashing down into their target.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
A birthday party had just ended, and he was offered a piece of cake, chocolate with a jelly-bean rainbow arcing across the frosting.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
The familiar approach, arcing towards the stumps, heels kicking up, limbs loose.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
“A comparison between pre-fire and post-fire photos of the M16T1 structure does not show obvious signs of arcing or material changes in the condition of the tower,” according to the filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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