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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

During the ceremony on Tuesday, judge Meinir Wyn Edwards said there was "no plan or narrative arc in this novel" and that the "clumsy, flawed expression makes the whole thing almost impossible to read".

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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 emotional arc Nolan wants to trace should start there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

I squeezed between them, entering the arc at the edge of the rocky terrain.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

Their career arcs have taken different paths to their first Grand Slam meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

She made good time that night The track zoomed along beneath her, tracing slow arcs around hills, crossing rivers on crumbling bridges, always headed toward the sea.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

But as the sound of his melancholy horn arced through a sweltering Pasadena afternoon, one couldn’t help but be grateful to still have him here playing, even after losing everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

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

This one arced over Chelsea’s wall and dropped crisply into the bottom corner beyond Kepa Arrizabalaga’s despairing dive.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

We could be seen for many hundreds of miles as we arced across the predawn Pacific sky.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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

It soars upward and hangs there for four seconds, six seconds, eight—a black meteor arcing against the blue sky.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

The familiar approach, arcing towards the stumps, heels kicking up, limbs loose.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

Bull snapped back, shooting another arcing set that hit the back of the rim and bounced back to him without ever touching the court.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy