arcade
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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
We went to this arcade bar called Neon Retro.
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 mall had a food court, an arcade for Zach.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Oleaga described the arcades as “a Walmart of family entertainment.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 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
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
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
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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
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
When the pilgrim descends into the town he comes upon many interesting timber-framed houses, some of them with second stories projecting over the arcaded footway below and exhibiting quaintly attractive carvings on their heavy beams.
From Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
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
Above both lower lights in this window is a renaissance arcading.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
The view from just inside the south porch showing the four rows of arcading separating the outer aisles from the inner, and these from the central nave, is very fine.
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
It may be mentioned here that underneath these last windows, on the outside, there is an arcading with simple pointed arches which does not appear on the other transept.
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
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