as in flips
to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner
we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked
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flips
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Paulsen flips through cut-ups and points out spacing and the tiniest of movements in a route, the angles of hips and feet and placement of hands in a block.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Trump's approach flips that logic.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Leafs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leafs. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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