arcade
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On a recent Tuesday at the Gatcha arcade in Manhattan’s Koreatown, Yokerathinam pointed out a machine stocked with Pikachu plushies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
We went to this arcade bar called Neon Retro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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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Shopping arcades, for example, popped up across European cities in imitation of bazaar structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
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
Dance Dance Revolution is a Japanese video game series which was first released to arcades in 1998.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Since the dawn of the OASIS, thousands of elderly users had come here and painstakingly coded virtual replicas of local arcades they remembered from their childhood, thus making them a permanent part of the museum.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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There she attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography, housed in an arcaded Renaissance monastery.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2016
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
The elaborately arcaded and sculptured west front of Ferrara cathedral is a screen to an early building.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
These sills are panelled with a foliated arcading, and in front of the passage there is an open trefoil work parapet.
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
Indeed, the chancel arch and some elaborate arcading in the church are very fine examples of that period, and tend to show the importance with which the early Norman builders invested this spot.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
This arcading is almost entirely new; what there was of it until recently was principally of plaster.
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 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
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