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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

Their architect, Michael Lehrer, created a striking design with a butterfly roof slanting up in two directions from the center, zigzag walls and picture windows front and back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025

Day after day the Astrea moved in a crazy zigzag.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Such stylistic zigzags, always present in the rapper’s work but even more prominent here, define “Don’t Be Dumb.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

He zigzags gracefully from the reggae love paean “Manifestación de Amor,” with boricua band Gomba Jahbari, to the bossa tinged “Besos de Invierno.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

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

Every ten feet, red and blue flags jutted up from the Styrofoam snow, and zigzags of black ribbon denoted hidden crevasses.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

The hallways were decorated for Halloween with orange-and-black crepe paper strung in sagging zigzags across the ceiling.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

But instead of moving quickly in a straight line, as instructed, the men moved slowly and zigzagged through the forest to avoid leaving a clear trail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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

On Thursday afternoon, delivery trucks and cars zigzagged around unidentifiable heaps of twisted metal and fabric left in the street, as trains roared by and a helicopter circled overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2024

His seventeen-year-old face had grown lines; they zigzagged across his forehead, and inside each line a dark tension had crawled in.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 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

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

He ran down the dock, zigzagging around baskets and barrels and coils of ropes.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis