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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News of her death at 80 is being felt from Hollywood Boulevard to small-town libraries, where generations of California children discovered the joy of reading through her Imagination Library program. James Ward, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Nvidia was back at record highs by June 25, 2025, yet every efficiency headline since has been read through the January template, including the scare the market relived this July around Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Sit with it a little bit and read through some of the earlier parts. Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026 Godec decided to read through Gajdusek’s journals from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, which were stacked on a shelf. Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 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 29 Aug. 2026.

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