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scroll

[skrohl] / skroʊl /
NOUN
rolled sheet, especially a manuscript
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In the joke that inspires the special’s title, she measures an Instagram comment’s subzero value in a wide scope, lampooning the communal yet cartoonish nature of our endless scroll.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

"If people want to doom scroll… that's fine, that's up to them."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Researchers in Italy announced in June the first complete virtual unrolling of a scroll, which turned out to be a treatise on ethics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Every tweet is met with an infinite scroll of rejoinders; no observation she posits goes unpunished.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Their Torah scroll occupied its own shelf, wrapped in the nicest cloth Babulya had been able to purchase in Zmeyreka.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

The text scrolls as he speaks, and it can also be controlled via a ring on his finger.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The technology is transforming the work of historians not only by decoding documents, but also by analysing millions of medieval manuscripts or helping read ancient scrolls.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Shalom, the Hebrew word for peace and wholeness, appears after a crisis in the Book of Numbers, and it is written with a break in its third letter in all Torah scrolls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Mygal scrolls through the Telegram app on her phone, checking channels that monitor the direction of drone attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

On the stable roof, Ella roosted in a pile of old Roman scrolls, her head tucked under her wings.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

He took out his phone and scrolled old pictures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Metallica’s always been more existential than topical, but haven’t we all scrolled our feeds recently and muttered - “Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

A menu of worries scrolled through my head as I sat with my coffee one recent morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

When Maitri Sanghvi scrolled through TikTok, "Japan just kept popping up," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

I scrolled through the readers’ comments, mostly sympathy for Nicole, anger that the cops weren’t doing enough.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Yankovic gets most of his food recommendations by either word of mouth or scrolling Instagram reels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

We’ve spent the last decade scrolling on iPhones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Those classified as "light process" users spent less than four to five hours a day using their phones for a mixture of social interaction, news, entertainment, and passive scrolling.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

It’s the tech that’s powering its creepy glasses, its open-source coding model, and now its bid into the battle of personal agents that will basically turn the experience of scrolling online into a water slide.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Um, sorry,” said Kojo, scrolling down his phone’s screen.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein


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