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as in to peek
to take a quick or hasty look
browsed through the stacks looking for interesting books
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Recent Examples of browse
Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Maximize your visit to the Heath with a dip in the pond, a browse of Daunt Books, and a coffee at The Nook.
Festival season
Our north-west Londoner Harry… in east London?
—Riann Phillip, Vogue, 11 June 2025
Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Best enjoyed while browsing Lex!
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025
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Verb
The teeth are different shapes depending upon whether an herbivore was eating a browse diet, which would be like leaves or shrubs, or a graze diet, which would be more like grass.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Maximize your visit to the Heath with a dip in the pond, a browse of Daunt Books, and a coffee at The Nook.
Festival season
Our north-west Londoner Harry… in east London?
—Riann Phillip, Vogue, 11 June 2025
Noun
Anthropic has officially released a Claude AI browser extension for Chrome, designed to bring its conversational agent directly into users’ browsing experience.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Best enjoyed while browsing Lex!
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for browse
Verb
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Hall used to peek over her aunt’s fence to get a glimpse of the mysterious new kid on the block until her aunt introduced them.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
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When asked about giving fans a public opportunity to peek into Carrie's enviable closet, the Sex and the City star, 60, revealed during a recent Q&A, hosted by Threads, that an exhibition would definitely be possible, as the show has retained much of her character's wardrobe.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Then, though a 2-0 pitch to Taylor Trammell appeared to graze the virtual strike zone, Williams wound up walking his third batter of the inning to force home the go-ahead run.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Most workshops can go on citing examples (and from each other’s writing, too, which is fun to do)―any perusal of course reading lists or an hour spent grazing the literature shelves of a bookstore yields numerous possible stories for discussion.—
Douglas Unger
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But my doctor was also very good about continuing to get any tests and scans available at the time.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The feature creates a QR code that, if someone with compatible headphones scans, will tune them into the same playlist.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Most executives can recite their gross margin, customer acquisition cost and debt-to-equity ratio without glancing at a dashboard.—
Heather Yerrid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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At an Oasis show the other night in Pasadena, California, many people around me barely glanced at the stage.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Browse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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