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arch

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Recent Examples of arch
Adjective
These shoes didn’t have the best arch support, but that wasn’t something that bothered us when walking for short or long periods of time. Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025 The comfy slip-ons have an arch-support footbed, but the shoe’s standout detail is its soft upper and lightweight, bendable design; these shoes are easy to pack and save on luggage space. Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
Among the artifacts retrieved was a fragment of an arcade arch that weighs more than 440 pounds. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025 The National Monuments Foundation proposed an arch, named Millennium Gate, in 2000. Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
Keep your shoulders relaxed and engage your core to avoid arching your back. Dana Santas, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025 Dirty kicks are essentially high-arching knuckleballs that can land in the middle of the field and take an unpredictable bounce or fly at an angle, depending on how the kicker makes contact. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arch
Adjective
  • As for Sundance’s main slate of world premiere films, the festival is still heads down screening some half a dozen movies a day ahead of lineup announcements later this fall.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The verdict of the Specialized Criminal Court in the city of Banska Bystrica closes a trial that began in July and whose main question was whether Cintula, who admitted shooting Fico, was guilty of terrorism or less serious crimes of murder or attack.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Kizzi’s fate, drama-wise, is not in butting heads with people in her team, but in boatmance.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Also, color-wise, this phone doesn’t give you many possibilities.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The trio portrayed three of the Weasley children in the magical films, with James and Oliver starring as mischievous twins Fred and George and Bonnie as their youngest sibling, Ginny.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Orsoni has salt-and-pepper hair and an exaggerated, slightly mischievous energy.
    Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As first predicted by Albert Einstein, gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of space-time for the path of light around it to be visibly bent, as if by a lens.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Engage the core to help keep the lower spine curvature neutral and not rounded or slouched.
    Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Uchis has built a reputation as a bilingual and genre-fluid artist who bends musical boundaries with ease.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the view of many faculty members, Baccarelli had undermined the public position Harvard spent months cultivating—as a beacon of academic integrity, unwilling to bend to the administration’s political pressure.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At an altitude of 625 kilometers, an 18-meter reflector — even if optimally curved to focus that light down onto the Earth’s surface — would create a spot of light just-under 6 km across on Earth’s surface.
    Big Think, Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This Samsung Odyssey curved monitor deal sets you up with pro visuals at a much friendlier $179 price tag on Walmart.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Anglers who want to keep their catch fresh on a long drive home are better served to cover fish in a dry livewell with ice.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • His monthly Inside China column explores the issues that shape discussions and understanding about Chinese innovation, providing fresh perspectives not found elsewhere.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Misiorowski had made Edman look foolish in their first matchup, getting the infielder to swing through a wicked curveball.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Niehuus, an entertainmen lawyer by training but someone with a wicked wit, succeeds Bernd Neumann, an esteemed former minister of culture in the German government, who has stepped down.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Arch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arch. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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