zigzag
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The development and adoption of AI may not go straight from point A to point B. It may very well zigzag, just as the internet economy did.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Court transcripts, transcripts of conversations Nuzzi’s had with other reporters and snapshots of a D.C. politico’s high life collide with one another in disjointed chapters that eschew timelines and zigzag among subjects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Don’t zigzag from incident to incident or from regret to regret.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
They looked terrifyingly strong, with raised zigzag scars on their muscled arms.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The chronological installation begins with Evans’s first two pen-and-ink drawings from about 1935: abstract radiating eyes, spirals, zigzags and squiggles—feverish doodles resembling ancient pictographic narratives set down in a trance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
He zigzags gracefully from the reggae love paean “Manifestación de Amor,” with boricua band Gomba Jahbari, to the bossa tinged “Besos de Invierno.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
This new display wanders back and forth across the Alps, zigzags off-piste, and in a few places jumps into the modern age.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
We are hardly the first generation of women to know in our bones that progress comes in zigzags and waves, and occasional backlash.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2023
On the Sanriku Coast, which extends through Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, the shoreline zigzags in and out like the teeth of a saw.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
From Levin's quiet street, the concrete border wall zigzagged up the ridge overlooking Shlomi.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Bill Callahan’s past few records have zigzagged between third-person narrative and personal reflection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
On Day 5, shortly after the backyard sprinklers stopped their cycle, a single squirrel tentatively zigzagged across the yard bound for the bird feeder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2024
A near-standing ovation and huge roar greeted Nadal, while the familiar pre-match foibles - aligning his water bottles, box jumps at the net and zigzagged sprint to the baseline - were also lapped up.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
They zigzagged to the right and reached the saddle of the fourth pass as night fell.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The US labor market has largely stabilized, with steady unemployment despite zigzagging job growth, leaving policymakers mostly focused on inflation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The zigzagging has amplified industry worries about inconsistent signals from the agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
This is his Pynchoniad, a zigzagging epic of America and the world through our bloodiest, most shameful hundred years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
After zigzagging hundreds of miles across Europe, the contents of the consignment had been verified five days earlier by customs officers at Schipol Airport in the Netherlands, ready for its road trip to Belgium.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
I tried to trace the serpent’s path with my finger, but it slipped away from me, zigzagging.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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