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With his trusty bow and arrow, he hunts game and safeguards his twin sister Asa – who, for unexplained reasons, resides behind bars in a dark cell.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Like that arrow on a dashboard, a line of paint on the road wasn’t always there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The sculpture depicts America as an indigenous female figure - holding a bow and arrow, and wearing a headdress.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Even if the arrow doesn’t go where you want, there’s this immediate thing that happens in your body that feels good,” Fadel says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
For some reason, that struck Jack as a perfectly logical thing to do, so he swung the sword up, almost in slow motion, and swept the arrow right off course so it missed him entirely.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
No need to untangle the complex hypocrisy here — it’s all laid out in arrows and diagrams.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
As a result, the system can generate trajectories that correspond to stretched, blurred, or inverted arrows of time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
That’s when “the arrows started flying,” recalled Victor Aguilar, who oversees the company’s $2 billion in annual R&D spending, referring to the yearslong back-and-forth to turn the new technology into a salable product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Observations show the people use narrow outrigger canoes, live in large communal huts, carry spears, bows and arrows, and wear fibre waistbelts, as well as necklaces and headbands.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Beside him stood a tall young man, and a girl about Torak’s own age: Both had dark-red hair, smooth, pitiless faces, and flint arrows trained on his heart.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
