arcade
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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
In just 15 minutes at a Manhattan arcade, the 20-year-old college student and her boyfriend had collected three prizes from the rows of claw machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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 a small windowless room in Fraser Hall at the University of Kansas, a junior named Maggie Biberstein sits in a contraption that resembles a driving video game at an arcade.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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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
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
Meanwhile, the shopping mall evolved from a place to buy things into a destination for all kinds of family entertainment, often boasting large food courts, multiplex theaters, indoor playgrounds, video arcades and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Palm trees and pillared arcades cast shadows over the burning pavements.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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Scenes of piazzas, arcaded streets and markets float through this podcast with Kathy McCabe, the host of the PBS “Dream of Italy” series.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
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
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
In the long arcaded bay-walks of the villa she saw a familiar figure approaching.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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
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
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
In the first three western bays in both aisles the large arcading, with its plain trefoiled arches, is clearly Early English.
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 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
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