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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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Recent Examples of read
Requiring truck drivers to speak and read English isn’t new, but the penalty for not meeting the proficiency standard is becoming more severe.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
The rest of Shahn’s résumé from the thirties reads like that of a lefty artist plucked from central casting.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
Joshua Jackson and Busy Philipps coordinate their pinks and have a Dawson's Creek reunion at the MPTF NextGen Annual Summer Party fundraiser on June 22 in L.A.
Walton Goggins reads a short story to announce Jimmy John's Summer Menu of Ultimate Temptation (S.M.U.T.) in New York City on June 23.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 24 June 2025
Thank you all for reading these recaps and having such great conversations in the comments along the way.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 13 June 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
The rest of Shahn’s résumé from the thirties reads like that of a lefty artist plucked from central casting.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
Joshua Jackson and Busy Philipps coordinate their pinks and have a Dawson's Creek reunion at the MPTF NextGen Annual Summer Party fundraiser on June 22 in L.A.
Walton Goggins reads a short story to announce Jimmy John's Summer Menu of Ultimate Temptation (S.M.U.T.) in New York City on June 23.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 24 June 2025
Thank you all for reading these recaps and having such great conversations in the comments along the way.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 13 June 2025
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Victor’s characters were magnetically awkward, their address was intimate and direct, and their creator scanned as a pretty weirdo with a tap on the discourse and on the possibilities of the contemporary internet.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
29 June 2025
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Researchers with the organization scanned 700 miles of Lake Michigan using sonar technology and used models to recreate the weather patterns that Flight 2501 would have encountered the night of the crash.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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Research and advisory firm Gartner predicted in February that by 2027, the average prices of application programming interfaces for genAI will fall to less than 1% of the current average price for the same technology.—
Bernice Ooi,
CNBC,
26 June 2025
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Hentschel also predicted fewer new apartments will get built and that demand for commercial warehouse space will increase, pushing up rents.—
Jeff Collins,
Oc Register,
25 June 2025
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Poke around Spring Hollow Antiques, sip wine at Muse Vineyards or beer at Woodstock Brewhouse, have a bite to eat at Woodstock Garden Cafe, and peruse the local produce at South Street Barn Market (open year-round on Saturdays).—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2025
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People approach their days differently; in one of the private enclosures, three old boys in full old-school suits and top hats sit and peruse their racecards and newspapers, smoking cigars and barely saying a word.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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The conclusion comes after an international research team reviewed artifacts recovered from Obłazowa Cave, one of Poland’s most important Paleolithic sites.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
26 June 2025
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Kobach said that the policies violate parents’ rights under the U.S. Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act, which protects student records from public distribution and gives parents the right to amend, inspect or review those records.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2025
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That bill, House Bill 436, gives a pathway for emergency services to withdraw from urban renewal agencies, which skim new revenue from rising property values and new development and uses that money to help fund more projects.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
13 June 2025
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For most locations, the upper limb of the moon will skim to within about 20 arc minutes (one-third of a degree) of Mars.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
13 June 2025
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Leadership roles and extracurricular activities have prepared Poway High School Salutatorian Michael Markoff to tackle the challenges of studying medicine at UCLA this fall.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
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That’s what researchers Kayla Clark from Rice University and Stephanie Leal from University of California, Los Angeles, have now studied.—
Eva Amsen,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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“Read.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/read. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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