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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

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

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

We continue to zigzag up and down the hills.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

In Homer’s “Odyssey,” about the hero’s 10-year quest to return home from the Trojan War, the story zigzags among locations, time periods and narrators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Their filmography zigzags between thrillers and comedies, lean exercises and awards heavyweights, never making the same movie twice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

This divorce's like in a disaster film when a crack zigzags along the street and a chasm opens up under someone’s feet.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

From Levin's quiet street, the concrete border wall zigzagged up the ridge overlooking Shlomi.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 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

A near-standing ovation and huge roar greeted Nadal, while the familiar pre-match foibles - aligning his water bottles, box jumps at the net and zigzagged sprint to the baseline - were also lapped up.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024

They buzzed and zipped and fizzed as they zigzagged everywhere.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Hundreds of fans flooded on to the pitch in ecstasy, zigzagging around, arms aloft.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Lehmann said the whale was "zigzagging" in the water and could become stranded again.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

We see the folds best in raking light—directed at the painting from an acute angle—and the fleshy effect was created by the painter zigzagging the wax pigment across her neck in layers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

He moved over to an appliance that looked like a stove but with metal zigzagging across the top instead of the usual burners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

Harry soared around the perimeter of the grounds, looking around for the Snitch and keeping one eye on Harper, who was zigzagging far below him.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling