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[ahrk] / ɑrk /


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"To have seen the arc of this bill come to fruition has been a marathon," Tasneen said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

To her arguments, we would add the historical arc that shaped this approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

“If you’re looking at the arc — not as a Super Bowl but how the NFL wanted to come back to Los Angeles — you have Disney, a longstanding, old-school entertainment partner,” Demoff said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

You can hear the whole argument in the arc of his songs.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The tectonic plates surrounding the Pacific Ocean are converging, or moving toward each other, resulting in a rough arc of subduction faults around the edge of the ocean.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

To cover rent on a tiny apartment, Mr. Stallone took low-level jobs, including a gig as an usher at a movie theater, where he got a free education in cinematic story arcs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

On Earth, similar processes occur beneath volcanic arcs and are associated with the formation of continents.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

The film is Marvel's last big-screen outing before Doomsday, the long-awaited culmination of multiple superhero story arcs after Avengers: Endgame.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Scenes animated in hand-drawn style are designed to bring Bonnie’s imagination to life, recreating the vivid magic of designing entire stories and character arcs for toys during playtime.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

The darkness crept down and the rain drummed on the steel roof of the cab and the windshield wipers sobbed their arcs.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Suddenly, the whale’s dark body arced above the surface before diving down to reveal its tail, or fluke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Wing Elliot Daly, having pondered a blindside dart off a rolling maul, arced round the back of England's backline.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

Sparks flew as the cable lines arced and popped, generating the last bit of DWP-generated light I’d see before the power went out, rendering the city pitch-black aside from fires and flashing sirens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Experts who watched videos showing downed power lines agreed wire that was insulated would not have arced and sparked, igniting a line of flame.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023

By walking backwards we found we could track it as it slowly arced from six o’clock anti-clockwise to four o’clock.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Government fire investigators said the fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Altadena, was caused by electrical arcing on Edison’s out-of-service transmission line in Eaton Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Government fire investigators said the fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes, was caused by electrical arcing on Edison’s out-of-service transmission line in Eaton Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The ultra-fast missiles travel on a high arcing trajectory before crashing down into their target.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

It soars upward and hangs there for four seconds, six seconds, eight—a black meteor arcing against the blue sky.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Every turn, sweep, and pirouette channels the elements—a dip births a bolt of lightning arcing down from the sky.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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