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as in glancing
to take a quick or hasty look
browsed through the stacks looking for interesting books
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Recent Examples of browsing
With more time, adding an Art Deco walking tour, browsing Lincoln Road and exploring North Beach gives a fuller picture of how the city functions beyond the tourist core.
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Taylor Haught, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Although both the iPad Pro and the iPad Air are rated to last for 10 hours of web browsing or video playback on Wi-Fi and 9 hours of browsing over 5G, our testing shows a bit of differentiation.
—Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
After browsing at the Downtown vinyl outpost Needle to the Groove for interesting records Deniké will bring her finds to the Break Room for an hour-long listening session.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Your browsing activity is tracked, packaged and monetized.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Even as stores reopened, foot traffic at Dubai Mall on Monday skewed heavily toward browsing — tourists, largely, with nowhere else to go — while Mall of the Emirates saw more transactional activity.
—Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 3 Mar. 2026
As people sheltered less than 10 miles away in Jerusalem, streets in Ramallah swarmed with shoppers browsing meat counters, vegetable stalls and Ramadan sweets, some stopping to record the sounds of distant sirens and missile interceptions.
—Claudia Ciobanu, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2026
As people sheltered less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away in Jerusalem, streets in Ramallah swarmed with shoppers browsing meat counters, vegetable stalls and Ramadan sweets, some stopping to record the sounds of distant sirens and missile interceptions.
—Claudia Ciobanu, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
And earlier this month, OpenAI hired OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger after his tool surged in popularity by automating tasks such as managing emails and calendars, browsing the web and interacting with online services.
—Katie Tarasov,ari Levy, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Taylor Haught, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Although both the iPad Pro and the iPad Air are rated to last for 10 hours of web browsing or video playback on Wi-Fi and 9 hours of browsing over 5G, our testing shows a bit of differentiation.
—Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
After browsing at the Downtown vinyl outpost Needle to the Groove for interesting records Deniké will bring her finds to the Break Room for an hour-long listening session.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Your browsing activity is tracked, packaged and monetized.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Even as stores reopened, foot traffic at Dubai Mall on Monday skewed heavily toward browsing — tourists, largely, with nowhere else to go — while Mall of the Emirates saw more transactional activity.
—Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 3 Mar. 2026
As people sheltered less than 10 miles away in Jerusalem, streets in Ramallah swarmed with shoppers browsing meat counters, vegetable stalls and Ramadan sweets, some stopping to record the sounds of distant sirens and missile interceptions.
—Claudia Ciobanu, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2026
As people sheltered less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away in Jerusalem, streets in Ramallah swarmed with shoppers browsing meat counters, vegetable stalls and Ramadan sweets, some stopping to record the sounds of distant sirens and missile interceptions.
—Claudia Ciobanu, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
And earlier this month, OpenAI hired OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger after his tool surged in popularity by automating tasks such as managing emails and calendars, browsing the web and interacting with online services.
—Katie Tarasov,ari Levy, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for browsing
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The video goes on to show the gunman turn to his right and fire a third shot, grazing a second victim.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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The Bechtel family allowed cattle grazing on the ranch, which POST will continue.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The examples below ended with Mbeumo forcing a save from Manchester City’s Gianluigi Donnarumma, Sesko scoring a later winner against Fulham and Joshua Zirkzee glancing just wide during the draw with West Ham.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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For much of the New Deal legislation passed, the executive branch drafted the legislation and sent it to Congress, which approved it after glancing at it — or not looking at all, Yoo said.—
Mikayla Bunnell,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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Redzepi became a figurehead for the Copenhagen restaurant as well as a global authority on fine dining, fermentation and foraging since Noma’s founding in 2003.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Aim for the hole and spray into the nest during the evening when the wasps are inactive and aren’t out foraging.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
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For extra sparkle, a dangly charm hangs from one shoe featuring the original Converse Chuck Taylor logo with Hello Kitty peeking out playfully from the top.—
Kelsey Legg,
ABC News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Georgia sun was peeking over the trees.—
Vicki Glembocki,
Parents,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Browsing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browsing. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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