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zigzag

[zig-zag] / ˈzɪgˌzæg /


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Even the chisels -- straight, curved or zigzag, depending on the motif -- are made here.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

It is housed in a zigzag building of titanium zinc—a striking Berlin landmark that draws thousands of tourists for the architecture alone—designed by Daniel Libeskind, an American architect of Polish-Jewish extraction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

So I went on my zigzag way across the common, thinking about time, black holes, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and storm warnings.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

“We’ve done a lot of zigzags, some very painful, some hard but joyful,” Bancel said in an interview the day after the results were announced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

“It would be an arrogant thing to think we’re alone,” she says as the black SUV she’s sitting in zigzags through Midtown Manhattan traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

A former Marine, Puerta now zigzags the nation sharing his son’s story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

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

Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

From Levin's quiet street, the concrete border wall zigzagged up the ridge overlooking Shlomi.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

But instead of moving quickly in a straight line, as instructed, the men moved slowly and zigzagged through the forest to avoid leaving a clear trail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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

On Thursday afternoon, delivery trucks and cars zigzagged around unidentifiable heaps of twisted metal and fabric left in the street, as trains roared by and a helicopter circled overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2024

Higher and higher Harry climbed; he looped and swooped, spiraled, zigzagged, and rolled.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

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

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

Sandy Yang’s home, whose form is inspired by the area’s zigzagging mountains, is designed to help a couple without children form their own vibrant community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

Gregor saw Henry, Mareth, and Perdita zigzagging their bats above the rats’ heads.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins


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