skimmed (through)

Definition of skimmed (through)next
past tense of skim (through)

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scanned
Verb
  • The restoration was made using extant materials from 1968, including a 35mm release print preserved at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film archive and a 35mm release print preserved and scanned at the BFI National Archive.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Yet this is also the same company that ripped the spine off millions of books, scanned their pages, and fed the text into Claude’s training data.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Skimmed (through).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skimmed%20%28through%29. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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