arcade
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Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The company, he said, will open a "cultural, artistic, fashion, art, retail food experience" in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the ornate 19th century shopping arcade where the first Prada boutique opened in 1913.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
An arcade, arts-and-crafts studio or children’s museum is a natural location for a kid’s birthday party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In another lawsuit, he claimed an arcade rigged its claw machines against players, alleging it functioned as “a casino for children.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
I met Tim at the arcade at the Balfour Park mall.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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Couple the gamification of everything from languages to health with Americans’ fascination with collectibles, and it was only a matter of time before claw-machine arcades took off in the U.S., retail experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Reductions to tax relief for vape shops and gambling arcades will help to pay for the £100 million a year cost of the measure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The rest is “walk-in retail,” which includes bowling, arcades, food and beverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
And while a modern Chuck E. Cheese is school-cafeteria bright, Chuck’s Arcade is dark, its black walls and low lighting recalling the arcades of the ’80s and ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
It contained a kind of underground city comprised entirely of pizza joints, bowling alleys, convenience stores, and, of course, video arcades.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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There she attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography, housed in an arcaded Renaissance monastery.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2016
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
On the morning after the arrival of Mr. Herriott's guests, breakfast had been served on the long, arcaded piazza, where stood three circular tables, each bright and fragrant from central piles of flowers and fruit.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
Some of the arcading, notably that in the three easterly bays of the south aisle, is unrestored.
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
Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows.
From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown
The lateral arcades are blind, while the higher central arcading around the door is surmounted with three receding tori resting on crocketed foliate capitals.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
The arcading above the windows of the south aisle, with its banded Early English shafts, is another beautiful feature here.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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