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[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

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

It was a line: a curved line, like a loosely scribbled letter C, and it was sparkling and flickering in a zigzag pattern of blacks and whites and silvers.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

“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

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

His volatile emotional states are the biggest constant in a book that zigzags from cars to rockets, tunneling to AI, solar energy to neural implants.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 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 anacos are a soft wool blend with fine zigzags along the bottom, a cream anaco underneath and a dark one on top.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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 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

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty!” a chorus of voices came through the air toward them, and Minli could see a parade of servants in the distance running across the zigzagged bridge.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

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 computer plays itself quietly, lighting up in measured, zigzagging rows until one or two players take up the controllers, which operate the game’s so-called paddles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

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

Along the walls of the room were long charts with zigzagging red and black lines that traced the success or failure of some experiment.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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