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
The arcade chain said Monday it swung to a loss of $12.5 million, or 36 cents a share, compared with a profit of $11.4 million, or 32 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
It was there, while she was standing in a shopping arcade surveying jackfruits and persimmons, that she felt something tugging on the free end of her sari.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
A famous bull mosaic in one of Italy's grand arcades is getting some much-needed care after being worn down by tourists honouring a tradition involving its delicate body parts.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
The wind whipped down the open walkway, through various sideshows, fun houses, and arcades, all grated over and shut down for the night.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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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
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
Its old timbered houses and arcaded streets give it a mediæval air, which is jealously preserved in all restoration work.
From England by Sir Frank Fox
The very arcading which we see I take to have stood north and south of the central hall of some large Roman mansion.
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
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
A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round the chevet on a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
The arcading in the other bays is equally clearly of the Decorated period, and is considerably smaller.
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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