escalator
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Behind him, hundreds of fans cram onto a London Underground escalator, all wearing Ali G's trademark yellow shell suit and skullcap.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The United Nations, now with a fixed escalator, kicks off its General Assembly, with all attention on the spiraling war in the Middle East.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
We freaked out about the elevator and the escalator and the laptop; British guys in the 1750s thought the umbrella was a sign of weakness.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
It starts three- and four-year-olds on an escalator of Spider-Man content that leads them to TV shows and movies aimed at grade-schoolers, teenagers and adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
They climbed the ribbed steel stairs of an escalator, the boy holding on to his hand.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
For one assignment, he visited malls and photographed people riding escalators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Lajpat and many other markets frequented by Ritu, Kanishka and millions of Indians are not malls with even surfaces, escalators and air-conditioning.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
It has shortened interpreter hours, powered down escalators and ignored loose cladding on its 75-year-old headquarters in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Guests faced little screening to enter the hotel on Saturday — a quick flash of a paper ticket — before heading down escalators to the only area with magnetometers, where bags were also searched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
We used to eat hot dogs from the counter at W. T. Grant, then play on the escalators at Pomeroy’s until we got kicked out.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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