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
The blanket is orange and turquoise, crocheted in a zigzag pattern.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
They try to hide under trees and the shadows of buildings, and run in zigzags when drones start chasing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
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
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
It zigzags from street level down to that same pasture, the jutting gray concrete of each turn as raw as an exposed ridgeline.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
A boy with zigzags cut into his hair helps him and poses for selfies.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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
Hundreds of fans flooded on to the pitch in ecstasy, zigzagging around, arms aloft.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
We see the folds best in raking light—directed at the painting from an acute angle—and the fleshy effect was created by the painter zigzagging the wax pigment across her neck in layers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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 was zigzagging and bumping his shoulders against ours, saying, “Boing! Five points. Boing! Ten points,” while we both laughed like idiots.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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