arcade
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Like I yell to my children at the water park arcade, there is no such thing as “unlimited funding.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
I visited museums, played arcade games at Santa Monica Pier and walked Venice Beach at sunset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
With one eye on her baby in a pushchair, Minae Kamata operates an arcade machine in a Tokyo suburb, manipulating a claw to grab not a stuffed toy but a pack of toilet paper.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The next contender is Street Fighter, the arcade classic fighting game that's been separating fans from their loose change since 1987.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
We walked around through the arcade to avoid the heat of the square.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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Wealthy homeowners are pouring millions into pricey perks for their older children, but even arcades and pickleball courts don’t always keep them around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Oleaga described the arcades as “a Walmart of family entertainment.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Shopping arcades, for example, popped up across European cities in imitation of bazaar structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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
That week they’d played ridderspel and spijker at the arcades on the Lid.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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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
There she attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography, housed in an arcaded Renaissance monastery.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2016
The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014
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 stairs ended at an arcaded hall, beyond which lay a long, brilliant room, comfortably filled with people at supper.
From A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
The lateral arcades are blind, while the higher central arcading around the door is surmounted with three receding tori resting on crocketed foliate capitals.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
The very arcading which we see I take to have stood north and south of the central hall of some large Roman mansion.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
Inside the arcading differs in the two transepts; in the south and older one the pointed arches are plain, while on the north they are cusped.
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
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
Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows.
From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown
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