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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Because metallic glasses lack a crystalline structure, the magnetic regions inside them can change orientation more easily when the magnetic field flips.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Mar. 2026 -
Commissioned by the British comedian Paul Smith (no relation to the fashion designer who created his own limited-run Mini), its eye-popping paint flips from blue to bright purple under the workshop’s strip lights.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Leafs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leafs. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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