zigzag
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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
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“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
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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
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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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