arcade
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We might get some candy to really feel the arcade vibes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
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
I wasn’t changing diapers; I was out playing arcade games at the shop, running around the neighborhood.
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
Eleri said it eventually became a business and she made £35,000 in profit before opening the shop in one of Cardiff's arcades this week.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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
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
The garden arcades and grounds are abuzz with movement as the palace prepares for the royal birthday party.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
The principal square, the place d’Armes, is surrounded by arcaded houses and shaded by trees.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
The front is in three stages; the lowest stage contains the three doorways, and is surmounted by a very elaborate arcading filled with statues of kings.
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
On one side of the lunette is a panel representing the Virgin kneeling beneath the open arcading of a temple, and on the opposite side a similar panel containing the Archangel Gabriel.
From Great Masters in Painting: Perugino by George C. Williamson
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
Above both lower lights in this window is a renaissance arcading.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
There are three apses; the middle one has two rows of blind arcading with ornamental brickwork above.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
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