surfed

verb

past tense of surf
as in scanned

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Recent Examples of surfed Kahanamoku first surfed Corona del Mar in 1914, before the surf break was destroyed by jetties in the ’30s, and became friends with the Vultee family, which had a home on the bluffs. — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surfed
  1. scanned
  2. perused
  3. browsed
  4. inspected
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  • Early Sunday morning, near the Place de la République, a part-time crossing guard named Joëlle, 71, scanned the wreckage along the Boulevard Voltaire from a bench, holding her shaggy shepherd mix, Pollux, on a leash.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Yet before the crows could be digitally designed, they were sculpted, and the character department built different parts of the crow — feathers, beaks, eyes and feet — to be scanned.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of scanned
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  • Maya and Callum, both smiling happily at each other, perused the menu.
    — Deepa Fernandes, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Steele perused them on the regular, looking to pad his newsletter.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of perused
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  • In the clip, Affleck and Samuel browsed sneakers at a convention, where Samuel spotted the Dior shoes.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • SoftBank teams sent messages, made calls, browsed the web and played video outdoors, under trees and indoors.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of browsed
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  • Organizations need to understand where TLS is negotiated, terminated, inspected and reestablished.
    — Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Management may have inspected an area without finding the condition later described by a resident.
    — Emma Clapp, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of inspected

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