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arcade

[ahr-kayd] / ɑrˈkeɪd /


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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

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

On a recent Tuesday at the Gatcha arcade in Manhattan’s Koreatown, Yokerathinam pointed out a machine stocked with Pikachu plushies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

We might get some candy to really feel the arcade vibes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

It was there, while she was standing in a shopping arcade surveying jackfruits and persimmons, that she felt something tugging on the free end of her sari.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Oleaga described the arcades as “a Walmart of family entertainment.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 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

Games stocked with luxe toys and more are taking over arcades, and operators actually want customers to grab the goods—at least once or twice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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 still have credits, and they don’t exactly let you get your money back because your date doesn’t like arcades.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Installed in the winter-bare garden of an ancient arcaded courtyard were vertical braziers holding firewood.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014

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

Many are of brick, with well-built domed roofs, and sides arcaded both above and below, and are wide and airy.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Above both lower lights in this window is a renaissance arcading.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

Both walls have an arcading of cinque-foil pattern; and the double piscina and the graduated sedilia are of no less merit.

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

The east end is partly covered with flat arcading, most elaborately carved with Arabic design, and partly with a black and red pattern of the same character.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins

The tone also of the nave arcading and clerestory rebuilt in recent years, of warm, rose-coloured sandstone, is very lovely.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Rev. Thomas Perkins


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