as in reviews
to look for and correct mistakes in (a written or printed piece of writing)
He proofread the essay carefully.
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That includes being a member of a committee that reviews community violence alongside mental health organizations and other groups.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Snackolator, a popular account that reviews new snacks, candy and fast-food releases, celebrated the news on Instagram, reiterating the NACS confirmation.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Amanda Paluch, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst who studies step counts as a measure of physical exercise, says the popular benchmark seems to have been inspired by a Japanese pedometer device made decades ago.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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The foundation, a progressive-leaning group which studies employment trends, compiled the data as the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has stopped providing its weekly reports on unemployment because of the shutdown.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The technology scans the entire genome for single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs—the spots where one person’s genome might have a T, while another’s has a C—for associations with human behaviors.—
Eric Turkheimer,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
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The software scans for visible firearms and sends an alert whenever a potential threat appears.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Passmore reads from Black Arms To Hold You Up.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The book reads more like a letter left behind to the next generation, one with many ideas and few real solutions.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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King peruses several cookbooks before settling on Richard Olney’s Lulu’s Provencal Table.—
Elizabeth Wellington,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Proofreads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proofreads. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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