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
Don’t zigzag from incident to incident or from regret to regret.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
Police cars formed a zigzag in the driveway.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
His feet zigzag down two narrow, brown- paneled hallways.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Such stylistic zigzags, always present in the rapper’s work but even more prominent here, define “Don’t Be Dumb.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
A former Marine, Puerta now zigzags the nation sharing his son’s story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
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
She did somersaults and darted back and forth in zigzags, as if she were dodging laser beams.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
From Levin's quiet street, the concrete border wall zigzagged up the ridge overlooking Shlomi.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
He turned into a global superstar on screen, but in reality a career that began at Millwall zigzagged through Plymouth, Wrexham and Scandinavia before injury forced his retirement aged 29.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Shares in Beyond Meat zigzagged from under $2 at the end of September to a low of 52 cents on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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
The sky was split by a zigzagged path of lightning, but even then I didn’t move.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
In the southern Athens seaside suburb of Glyfada, a pensioner struggles to cross an avenue with her shopping trolley, zigzagging between cars stuck in traffic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Hundreds of fans flooded on to the pitch in ecstasy, zigzagging around, arms aloft.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The computer plays itself quietly, lighting up in measured, zigzagging rows until one or two players take up the controllers, which operate the game’s so-called paddles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
He moved over to an appliance that looked like a stove but with metal zigzagging across the top instead of the usual burners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
He ran down the dock, zigzagging around baskets and barrels and coils of ropes.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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