zigzag

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

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

Compared with my own lockstep march toward success, the direct arrow shot of my trajectory from Princeton to Harvard to my desk on the forty-seventh floor, Barack’s path was an improvisational zigzag through disparate worlds.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

Thistletops erupted, wildflowers wobbled as the bike charged in reckless patterns only a fly could follow: circles, figure eights, zigzags, crazy doodles.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

The zigzagging has amplified industry worries about inconsistent signals from the agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

It was all very impressive, but I kept thinking Philly — who travels nose to the ground, zigzagging through the world — would have been kicked out of class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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

On an outermost island, panicked sheep run zigzagging between rocks.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr