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[ahr-keyd] / ɑrˈkeɪd /


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In just 15 minutes at a Manhattan arcade, the 20-year-old college student and her boyfriend had collected three prizes from the rows of claw machines.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

We went to this arcade bar called Neon Retro.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

The company, he said, will open a "cultural, artistic, fashion, art, retail food experience" in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the ornate 19th century shopping arcade where the first Prada boutique opened in 1913.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

I found myself standing in an old video arcade, playing Galaga.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Far from the solemn pomp of the Vatican, nestled under the arcades of the mountain town of Santarcangelo di Romagna, a tailor clad all in black leaned over his sketch.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

The homeless charity Shelter referred the pair, who enjoyed a week in Skegness on Skyla's birthday for a weekend of swimming, arcades, and "letting their hair down".

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, the shopping mall evolved from a place to buy things into a destination for all kinds of family entertainment, often boasting large food courts, multiplex theaters, indoor playgrounds, video arcades and more.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 15, 2026

Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, according to the Japan Amusement Industry Association.

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

Palm trees and pillared arcades cast shadows over the burning pavements.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2014

From arcaded passageways, the museums open onto a domed chapel and a peaceful courtyard with the new Charité Café and a general bookstore.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2013

History and Coffee During the Roman era, some 20,000 spectators would fill the stone seats of the arcaded amphitheater in what is now Piazza Sant’Oronzo.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2013

There are two streets which are arcaded, where activities are limited, eg preventing the playing of radios or busking.

From The Guardian Jun. 17, 2012

Across the rear a low arcaded screen of masonry, with an entrance to the right, separates the court from the garden.

From Yolanda of Cyprus by Cale Young Rice

It consists of an altar-piece of ornamental arcading, surmounted by three tall canopied niches in which are placed sculptured figures representing the Crucifixion, St. Mary, and St. John.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton

Without further speech they turned into it, and rode on beneath the shadow of trees, whose branches, arcading over, hindered sight of the sun.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows.

From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown

There is an open arcading on each side, extending to the piers of the presbytery.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton

There are three apses; the middle one has two rows of blind arcading with ornamental brickwork above.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins




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