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arcade

[ahr-kayd] / ɑrˈkeɪd /


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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

Four other arcade games still remain on the mini-game section of the White House website.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

We might get some candy to really feel the arcade vibes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

I draw it like it’s an arcade game, surrounded by Skee-Ball and claw machines.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Wealthy homeowners are pouring millions into pricey perks for their older children, but even arcades and pickleball courts don’t always keep them around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Oleaga described the arcades as “a Walmart of family entertainment.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Games stocked with luxe toys and more are taking over arcades, and operators actually want customers to grab the goods—at least once or twice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The homeless charity Shelter referred the pair, who enjoyed a week in Skegness on Skyla's birthday for a weekend of swimming, arcades, and "letting their hair down".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The garden arcades and grounds are abuzz with movement as the palace prepares for the royal birthday party.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Installed in the winter-bare garden of an ancient arcaded courtyard were vertical braziers holding firewood.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

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

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 last-named example the purer Italian style has exercised its influence in the principal doorway and in the arcaded gallery on the east front.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

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

Of the original organ the loft only remains, the Gothic balustrading of which is pierced with Flamboyant arcading.

From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various

It consists of an altar-piece of ornamental arcading, surmounted by three tall canopied niches in which are placed sculptured figures representing the Crucifixion, St. Mary, and St. John.

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

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


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