read through

phrasal 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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So my read through for that final episode was done on Zoom in isolation whilst everybody else was in the room. Kate Aurthur, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025 These genres were conspicuously overlooked in the general field, and reading through these genre category nominations shows how mistaken that was. Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025 Styles said Martini collected some himself, read through them with his door open where employees could see him and submitted the information contained on them. Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025 Drawing from his years inside Microsoft, Nasso delivers portrayals of tech CEOs that feel less like caricature and more like surgical roasts from someone who’s read through the Slack channels. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025 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 16 Nov. 2025.

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