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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

I held my suitcase in my right hand and was wearing brown traditional summer pants with zigzag thread patterns at the bottom and a T-shirt.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

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

The northeastern shore of Honshu, often called the Sanriku Coast, zigzags in and out, forming jagged shapes that resemble 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

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

They buzzed and zipped and fizzed as they zigzagged everywhere.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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 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

It was all very impressive, but I kept thinking Philly — who travels nose to the ground, zigzagging through the world — would have been kicked out of class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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

The climb was easy because there were many zigzagging paths.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie