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[uh-rey] / əˈreɪ /






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Traditional networks hold season-long rights to an array of games, but even Netflix’s strategy of picking and choosing among live events is getting expensive.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

The artist’s eponymous 2025 sculpture, crowned with an array of Bantu knots, ties the entire show together, joining materiality, traditional cultural identity, and the outward-looking nature of the exhibition in a single work.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

That’s one of the great things about Letterboxd: Everyone uses it differently, and those variations reflect a wide array of tastes in film.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

The company has also signed an agreement to produce hydrogen at its desert site by installing a solar array for power.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Calixte asked for nothing at all, though Lazlo knew she was procuring, with Tzara’s assistance, an array of resins with which to concoct sticking pastes to aid in her climbing.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Computer simulations showed the structures as swirling arrays of arrows that illustrate how different properties of light change direction across the Poisson spot.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

Weaving together multiple arrays of sensors, vehicles and weapons is often a drawn-out process that leads the government to issue more engineering contracts, driving up costs.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

Like all offshore wind arrays, they also need to deliver the electricity back to land, requiring long floating cables, loose enough to withstand ocean currents.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

The company recently introduced a plan to make solar arrays that could power space-based data centers.

From MarketWatch Mar. 31, 2026

Just before World War I, Harlow Shapley of Missouri devised a technique for measuring the distances to the globular clusters, those lovely spherical arrays of stars which resemble a swarm of bees.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

As Massie frequently notes, the bulk of the outside money arrayed against him has come from three billionaires – Las Vegas casino tycoon Miriam Adleson and hedge fund managers Paul Singer and John Paulson.

From BBC May 18, 2026

In another drawing in the series, “Reclining Male Nude With Shield and Sword,” a figure, arrayed like an ancient river god, holds himself up while twisting his head around in surprise and dismay.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

In the center of the room, real-life visitors arrayed on 26 swivel chairs turn their heads back and forth to take in the supersized Last Supper occurring all around them.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

There will be raking, and pile-making, and paper sacks stuffed with leaves, arrayed along curbs like defensive bulwarks.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 16, 2025

About fifty of his closest relatives—brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews—are arrayed around him.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

In arraying himself against adversaries no matter the cost, he has earned an appellation Robert Bolt gave Sir Thomas More: a man for all seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Shirtless, he struts like a rooster in a hen house, arraying himself on the lounge as though it were his personal yoga mat.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2023

Whether the photographer is shooting on the street or arraying gray test strips to suggest stripe paintings drained of color, he’s chronicling the passage of time.

From Washington Post Oct. 6, 2021

By arraying spike proteins on nanoparticles, vaccine developers aim to follow the style of upscale restaurants, where presentation matters nearly as much as the food on the plate.

From Science Magazine Apr. 15, 2021

He tried to look away from the books, to the guards that were arraying themselves around the pyre.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz




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