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noun

plural of surf

as in foams

a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid beachgoers romping in the swirling surf

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verb

present tense third-person singular of surf

as in peruses

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Noun

Materials science company Balena is exploring whether its flexible biomaterial could provide stretch and support in intimate apparel while reducing the category’s reliance on elastane, nylon, foams and other synthetic components.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
For decades, the military has extinguished fires using foams containing toxic PFAS.

— Austin Fast, USA Today, 26 July 2026

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No longer is Dick's Sporting Goods just a place to test drive putters while your wife browses her way through Sephora.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Lee is in his bookstore, reading Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, as Dale (Tim Blake Nelson) browses the shelves.

— Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025

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The moment a trend is approved, the system scans regional mill inventories to identify available stock fabric instantly, cutting days out of traditional sampling cycles.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2026
The Rocketbook app scans the pages to popular cloud services, like Dropbox, Google Drive, Slack and One Note.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026

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Robert Pozen, who lectures at MIT Sloan School of Management and was formerly president of Fidelity Investments, has an answer to the obvious question about who inspects this.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The leading theory is that the Grok filtering guardrail inspects text entering and leaving the model, but not the output of its own code execution.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026

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