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as in peeks
to take a quick or hasty look
browsed through the stacks looking for interesting books
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Recent Examples of browses
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
ChatGPT writes apps, plans trips and browses the web on users’ behalf.
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Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
And Perplexity’s Comet fully embraces the idea of a browser that browses for you.
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Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
Lee is in his bookstore, reading Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, as Dale (Tim Blake Nelson) browses the shelves.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
ChatGPT writes apps, plans trips and browses the web on users’ behalf.
—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
And Perplexity’s Comet fully embraces the idea of a browser that browses for you.
—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for browses
Verb
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Paul walks the cavern’s polished concrete floor, absorbs its hum, grazes its plastic surfaces with his fingertips.
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The plot of Red Sheet, though, only grazes the surface of Ellroy’s unique historical perspective.
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When constructed, the stone circle was aligned with the sun, and to this day, thousands of people gather to witness the moment the sun peeks perfectly through its pillars.
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But on Knicks nights, especially during a playoff run that included an historic 13-game win streak, the old New York still peeks through.
Noun
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Today that album scans as an interesting but uneven experiment; the music Shook is releasing under their own name hews much closer to the Lucinda-fronting-the-Replacements sound of the Disarmers.
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The scroll has been digitally unwrapped using a technique pioneered by Seales called Volume Cartographer, which takes scans of a 3D manuscript, layer by layer, and then effectively flattens these into 2D images that can then be read.
Verb
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Yoon’s wife slips a cigarette between her lips, then glances at my wife.
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Nail trends—and cursory glances at the ladies in the salon chairs beside us—have shown butter nails are here to stay.
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“Browses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browses. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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