zigzag
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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
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—It was like a scene out of a movie: a pair of white Jaguars zipping through a two-lane tunnel, changing lanes at the same time in a zigzag formation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 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
Håkon continued to zigzag around the arena while Ivan picked himself up.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The slim book explores American mysticism and a moral framework in ruins as his clan zigzags from Kansas to South Carolina, Illinois and elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
Viola’s feet hit the ground running and I’m right behind her, heading for the lip of the road that goes down to the zigzags.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
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
He tinkered with the box for what seemed forever as the black-and-white patterns zigzagged across the screen.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Some artists confronting the physical limitations that come with age pivot to a residency model rather than zigzagging from city to city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Hundreds of fans flooded on to the pitch in ecstasy, zigzagging around, arms aloft.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Lehmann said the whale was "zigzagging" in the water and could become stranded again.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
“Yeah. Okay, let’s take turns tossing them, zigzagging back and forth out there. If there’s some kind of magical exit, hopefully it’ll work with rocks, too—make them disappear.”
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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