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In ordinary situations, physicists ignore the time-reversed component by choosing a single arrow of time.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Normally, I love the arrow of a Willie Nelson lyric, which is: What’s the simplest way I can say the most complicated thing?

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

But it’s not just the film itself that feels off, with its allegory’s dull arrow landing in a field thousands of acres away from the target.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

She stood in the grass for a few minutes, staring at the arrow in her hand but not really seeing it.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack