arcade
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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
And that’s when the idea for “Pinball Wizard” came to the songwriter, who used to play pinball at the local arcade with Cohn and The Who’s producer Kit Lambert.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The arcade chain said Monday it swung to a loss of $12.5 million, or 36 cents a share, compared with a profit of $11.4 million, or 32 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
We went to this arcade bar called Neon Retro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
They were spaced evenly across the globe in a perfect grid, so that, from orbit, Archaide resembled the vector-graphic Death Star from Atari’s 1983 Star Wars arcade game.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
Far from the solemn pomp of the Vatican, nestled under the arcades of the mountain town of Santarcangelo di Romagna, a tailor clad all in black leaned over his sketch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The homeless charity Shelter referred the pair, who enjoyed a week in Skegness on Skyla's birthday for a weekend of swimming, arcades, and "letting their hair down".
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I went down-stairs and out the door and took a walk around through the arcades around the square.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014
From arcaded passageways, the museums open onto a domed chapel and a peaceful courtyard with the new Charité Café and a general bookstore.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2013
History and Coffee During the Roman era, some 20,000 spectators would fill the stone seats of the arcaded amphitheater in what is now Piazza Sant’Oronzo.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
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
Brescia contains many fine palaces, and from the streets into which they open one often gets a glimpse, through the iron grille of their portals, of a charming arcaded court.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
In this case the arcading has been altered to accommodate this obviously later addition, made probably in the early part of the fifteenth century.
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
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
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
It consists of an altar-piece of ornamental arcading, surmounted by three tall canopied niches in which are placed sculptured figures representing the Crucifixion, St. Mary, and St. John.
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
There is an open arcading on each side, extending to the piers of the presbytery.
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
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