Thesaurus results for SPEED-READ

speed-read

verb

as in to read

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Recent Examples of speed-read Butler opened up some articles and speed-read like never before. — Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025

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Verb

Write Out Loud — an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading literature aloud for a live audience — has announced its 20th season of Story Concerts.

— Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
The Complete Works is a must read at any stage of life, not just for a semester of English 101.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of read

Verb

Next, astronomers spied several exoplanets that are gas giants like Jupiter—but in orbits so tight that these worlds practically skim the surfaces of their stars.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026
The cream that has been skimmed and separated from the milk has about 36% to 40% milk fat.

— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of skim

Verb

At Hull’s railway station an hour or so later, a few Manchester United fans are scanning the departures board near Philip Larkin’s statue, which captures the late poet mid-stride.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Visitors will use smartphones to scan codes inside the Icon Park attraction for clues that will help track down five missing artifacts and the story behind the techniques used by Tussaud.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of scan

Verb

Steele perused them on the regular, looking to pad his newsletter.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Entering this sprawling time-travel bubble, visitors can pan for gold like the fabled Forty-Niners, talk with crusty prospectors and peruse a market center for wares.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of peruse

Verb

The researchers suspect that others were created by AI that either hallucinated or, just like the AI agents browsing their file, couldn’t distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate instructions.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
The report said 48 percent of consumers browse resale before buying new, and 58 percent of Gen Z and 55 percent of millennials prioritize secondhand over new.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026