skims

present tense third-person singular of skim
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as in flips
to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner I'll just skim through a few styling magazines and see if something interesting catches my eye

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Verb
  • New York — Swatch, the Swiss watchmaker, is trolling the 39% tariffs that the United States placed on its home country by selling a watch that flips the location of the 3 and 9 numerals.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • DeFi flips that logic on its head.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An inner radiative zone (makes up 70 percent of the Sun by radius), where energy flows smoothly and the whole region spins together like a solid ball, and the outer convective zone (the remaining 30 percent), where hot gases swirl chaotically and spin at different speeds depending on location.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And just like historical colonialism, this influence flows primarily in one direction – from powerful tech companies to the rest of us.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Despite the mess in her apartment, the man, like everyone else in her life, brushes off her fears as the exaggerations of an overactive imagination.
    Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Fog brushes the bluffs like a tide turned into vapor.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • During Sunday night’s match-up between the Baltimore Ravens and the Buffalo Bills, NBC revealed a new promo touting its coming coverage of the NBA, which bounces up in late October as part of a new 11-year rights deal struck between the basketball league and NBCUniversal.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His 3-year-old grandson, Aaron Jennings, climbs the opposite chair and bounces on its spongy base, giggling.
    Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • That way the boot peeks out slightly, without needing to be the center of attention.
    Aemilia Madden, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Meghan Markle is back with more recipes, peeks into her personal life and celebrity guests.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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  • Akerman turns the youths’ judgmental sociology into a romantic rhapsody with a shot that glides forward, from a wide view of Michèle and Paul submerged in a crowd to a tight double closeup of the two kissing.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Curie’s clean deodorant nourishes and protects the skin with a moisturizing, non-greasy formula that glides on smoothly without residue or irritation.
    Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Belly walks over to Benito as the clock strikes midnight and kisses him.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Elba’s co-star Rebecca Ferguson blew kisses around the room in the Sala Grande Theater.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Speedrunners have also found some arcane sequence skips to get around certain bosses or methods for putting off some boss fights until later than the developers intended.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This creamy cleanser skips harsh suds and instead uses a peptide blend with amino acids to strengthen fragile strands while preserving your natural oils.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Skims.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skims. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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