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
Don’t zigzag from incident to incident or from regret to regret.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
Police cars formed a zigzag in the driveway.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
They looked terrifyingly strong, with raised zigzag scars on their muscled arms.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
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
All those endless letters, those sticks and circles and zigzags, filling up books and magazines, billboards and candy wrappers.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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
They zigzagged through the wavy trunks at speed, with the lumbering Marco and Cook struggling to keep up in the moonlight.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
Lehmann said the whale was "zigzagging" in the water and could become stranded again.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 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
The zigzagging has amplified industry worries about inconsistent signals from the agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
After zigzagging hundreds of miles across Europe, the contents of the consignment had been verified five days earlier by customs officers at Schipol Airport in the Netherlands, ready for its road trip to Belgium.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
But before Glory could answer, the zigzagging arrow blew up into a shower of sparks.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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