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arcade

[ahr-kayd] / ɑrˈkeɪd /


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Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., operates a claw-machine arcade with more than 100 units, plus bubble tea and Korean shaved ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The idea of opening a vaccination clinic inside a town centre shopping arcade seemed odd to some of the staff when it was first suggested.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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

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

With the forest burning to the right and the left, the colonists' boats passed through a channel of fire, their passengers as goggle-eyed at the blaze as children at a video arcade.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Plus, claw arcades bring life back to malls and the FTC says dynamic pricing requires disclosure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

A famous bull mosaic in one of Italy's grand arcades is getting some much-needed care after being worn down by tourists honouring a tradition involving its delicate body parts.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, according to the Japan Amusement Industry Association.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

He wasn’t wearing a turban, but the Mr. Lemoncello mannequin reminded Kyle of the Zoltar Speaks fortune-teller booths he’d seen in video game arcades.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

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

They were grouped round an open square, surrounded by a vaulted and arcaded passage, which is known as the cloister.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

Below is a very beautiful arcading, similar, indeed, to that in the vestibule, which entirely surrounds the building.

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 same suggestion may have influenced the builders of Ickleton Church to utilise this old Roman arcading, roofing in the enclosed space, but with a clerestory to prevent too great loss of light.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

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

Without further speech they turned into it, and rode on beneath the shadow of trees, whose branches, arcading over, hindered sight of the sun.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid




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