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arch

[ahrch] / ɑrtʃ /


NOUN
curve, curved structure
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I passed beneath an unobtrusive white arch that, I later learned, uses artificial intelligence to detect weapons and notify guards nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Combined with Jemimah Rodrigues's century, it helped India secure a famous victory over their arch rivals.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hathaway is arch and expressive, doing subtle things with her eyes and voice that no one else can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Commuters on the parkway the arch will overlook?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The line tender holds the line and directs the diver in an arch search, the primary diver moving in a three-foot circle around himself, feeling for the child.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The high, flared wheel arches, the tall, curved roof and the eye-like headlights are all reminders of the original "deux chevaux" or "two horses".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

By upgrading marriage registries with chandeliers, flower arches and poetry, local Chinese officials are glamorizing city hall weddings in hopes of encouraging young couples to marry and boost the nation’s declining birthrate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Plans for a Potomac crossing date to before the Civil War, and various monumental arches were proposed in Washington during the late 19th century.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Los Angeles fire officials arrived shortly thereafter and saw the man atop one of the bridge’s arches, said Lindsey Lantz, public service officer with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The neighbor in question, a gray-haired woman, arches one eyebrow at me and clears her throat before turning back to Mrs. de Vries.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

In one of the living spaces, an artistic arched window provides a picturesque view of the property’s gardens—serving almost as a natural art piece in the space, which also boasts a cozy fireplace.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Metres away, other photographers yelled instructions to ornately dressed young women who held their fingers in victory signs and arched their backs for the camera.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The old factory at 120 Jefferson Northeast, a sand-colored brick building with its distinctive arched entryway, had gone out of business, and quickly.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Neoclassical busts are cast in sand, marble and bronze and carved through with winding stairs, arched doors and regal columns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The trees were the kind that arched overhead and touched branches in the middle of the street.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

A map of the routes with arrows arching across the country gave the operation its arachnid moniker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Tuesday’s home run, hit on an arching line to the left-center-field bullpen, served as a long-awaited first example.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Rainmaker Hall is the central meeting space, created inside an old hangar that was once a sweatshop with high, arching beams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

Music thumped from a makeshift DJ booth, as Zsilas Hughes got the ball started — first kicking up a leg, arching it behind, then gracefully spinning and dipping before landing in graceful death drop.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

The bridge, that is, arching slow and high into space, between silence and nothingness where lights—yellow and red and green—trembled in the clear air, repeating themselves.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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