read through

verb

read through; reading through; reads through
: to read (something) from beginning to end especially to look for mistakes or check details
Remember to read through your essay before you hand it in.
He read the instructions through twice before he tried to assemble the bicycle.

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Justice Department attorney Tanner Kroeger read through a summary of the allegations against Bolton, and recapped his use of messaging apps and email to distribute the diary entries to two family members. Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 26 June 2026 Operational resilience can no longer be read only through a firm's own controls; it must be read through the failure modes of everyone the firm relies on. Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 Higher quality rugs tend to have a larger percentage of natural fiber included, so make sure to read through the fabric description to get a sense of how the materials stack up. Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026 Head over to FanGraphs, sort players by wRC+, and read through the top 50 names. Chad Jennings, New York Times, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for read through

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“Read through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/read%20through. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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