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as in to scan
to go over and mentally take in the content of
he always reads the newspaper in the morning as he eats breakfast
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2
as in to predict
to tell of or describe beforehand
the psychic claimed to be able to read his future
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2026
Thanks for reading Braves Report.
—Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 10 Apr. 2026
For power users, this sort of thing can’t help but read as needling, even petty platform quirks.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
View Offers Or register for a free account to read just this article.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2026
Thanks for reading Braves Report.
—Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 10 Apr. 2026
For power users, this sort of thing can’t help but read as needling, even petty platform quirks.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
View Offers Or register for a free account to read just this article.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Our neighbors, an American couple, split a bottle of wine while peering into the distance through binoculars, scanning for whales.—
Akash Kapur,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Apr. 2026
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Fairlinked alleges that LinkedIn is now scanning for 6,222 extensions that could indicate a user’s political opinions or religious views.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
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Overall, Sosnowski predicts that a gradual warmup is forecast in most cases after a cool start to the week.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Large language models, or LLMs, are trained to predict the next most statistically likely word given everything that came before it, said Zhivar Sourati, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California and first author of the paper.—
Asuka Koda,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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From a morning perusing the Louvre to an afternoon lounging at the Luxembourg Garden—plus a day trip to Champagne or a weekend away in Burgundy—these 15 items embrace French chic.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Apr. 2026
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Head to that same site to peruse our full calendar of events.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
1 Apr. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Apr. 2026
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Despite being reviewed again in 2008 and 2009, investigators never discovered new leads.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Some travelers skim this section and move on.—
Matthew Kayser,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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Fifteen-year-old Savannah wore white pumps with a few inches of heel while the younger two completed their outfits with a pair of loafers (Isla) and a skimming ballerina flat (Georgina).—
Giorgia Olivieri,
Vanity Fair,
6 Apr. 2026
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Namira hoped eventually to study journalism and international relations.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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What Crockett should be identified as is the inventor of her own specific method of movement training, a cocktail of conditioning and character coaching she’s developed over nearly 20 years of studying bodies.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Read.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/read. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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