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zigzag

[zig-zag] / ˈzɪgˌzæg /


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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

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—It was like a scene out of a movie: a pair of white Jaguars zipping through a two-lane tunnel, changing lanes at the same time in a zigzag formation.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

Court transcripts, transcripts of conversations Nuzzi’s had with other reporters and snapshots of a D.C. politico’s high life collide with one another in disjointed chapters that eschew timelines and zigzag among subjects.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2025

Don’t zigzag from incident to incident or from regret to regret.

From MarketWatch Dec. 2, 2025

People zigzag through the streets to avoid them.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“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

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 colors appear in geometric shapes like spirals or balls or zigzags, that sort of thing. Or sometimes just a hazy patch of colored air.”

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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

The potato fields were covered with purple blossoms now, and stone walls zigzagged up and down between.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

The zigzagging has amplified industry worries about inconsistent signals from the agency.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

This is his Pynchoniad, a zigzagging epic of America and the world through our bloodiest, most shameful hundred years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

The zigzagging path leading to the front door was overgrown with a variety of odd plants, including a bush covered in the orange radishlike fruit Luna sometimes wore as earrings.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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