skims (through)

verb

present tense third-person singular of skim (through)
as in thumbs (through)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skims (through)
  1. scans
  2. peruses
  3. inspects
Verb
  • The excess of emotion often scans as winkingly facetious, a dramatization to demonstrate just how deeply a person loves books.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
  • The Incogni app, a PCMag Editors’ Choice winner, scans hundreds of people-search websites and personal data aggregators and automates the process of opting your data out of their collections.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026
Definition of scans
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  • Crook peruses the crowds, picking his moments carefully.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • Martha frequently grabs a bowl for serving dinner or peruses a favorite cookbook.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
Definition of peruses
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  • Typically, an embryologist inspects embryos produced through IVF and assesses their quality.
    — Edna Bonhomme, Scientific American, 6 July 2026
  • The robot inspects nearby infrastructure on its own schedule, then finds its way back to the station, latches on, recharges inductively, and offloads its data, all without a ship or a crew anywhere nearby.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 July 2026
Definition of inspects
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“Skims (through).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skims%20%28through%29. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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