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as in to scan
to go over and mentally take in the content of
he always reads the newspaper in the morning as he eats breakfast
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as in to predict
to tell of or describe beforehand
the psychic claimed to be able to read his future
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The official logline reads as follows: Talented Saville Row textile pattern designer Kate (Whitman) lives in the quaint village of Blexford, England, next door to her father Mac (Parker), who is long-divorced from Kate’s mother Delilah (McDonnell), a globe-trotting American always on an adventure.
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Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025
Aside from – but not in place of – the pleasure, the experience, and the life balance, reading, more than any other activity, develops our critical thinking skills, the glaring lack of which was fully on display during the 2024 election campaign.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement.
—Jeffrey Collins, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025
Learning to read those cues wasn't just a neutral process.
—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025
Aside from – but not in place of – the pleasure, the experience, and the life balance, reading, more than any other activity, develops our critical thinking skills, the glaring lack of which was fully on display during the 2024 election campaign.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement.
—Jeffrey Collins, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025
Learning to read those cues wasn't just a neutral process.
—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
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Verb
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Once installed, the malicious extension scans the victim’s browser for other extensions.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Here, agents are able to autonomously scan for compliance risks, continuously updating themselves on changes to regulations or statutory obligations.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Women possessed by the gods were oracles, predicting the future in cryptic utterances.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Tremble didn’t have the 2024 season that many predicted.—
Alex Zietlow and,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2025
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In 2010, Criterion began uploading videos to YouTube of the most notable people to peruse the closet’s offerings: filmmakers, actors, other influential cultural figures.—
Paula Mejía,
The Atlantic,
20 Mar. 2025
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Colorful family scrapbooks line the shelves, ready to be perused in one of the Lee Industries chairs.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2025
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InterAct also tracks health providers that perform intersex surgeries by reviewing websites that advertise services and other public statements.—
Barbara Rodriguez and Kate Sosin,
Them,
10 Mar. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacramento Bee,
10 Mar. 2025
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Most of the Wildcats’ most incisive passes skimmed across the turf, immune to the same gusts that could knock a long ball off-course in the air.—
Joseph Dycus,
The Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2025
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May is when the action really kicks off, with live music every Sunday, a Pride weekend May 17 and 18, and the semi-thawing of Lake Reveal, a high alpine lake that skiers and riders try to skim—and often sink into.—
Anna Fiorentino,
AFAR Media,
28 Feb. 2025
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Those recently unearthed will be housed at the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, where they will be further studied.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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So, like many young folks with a dream, Cruickshank went back to school, attending the prestigious Oxford University to study math.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Read.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/read. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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