skimming

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Readers less enrapt about the details of these might find themselves skimming sections about them, or those about operating-system updates and later iMac models.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

But that is still only skimming the surface.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

His troubled marriage to Dorothy Binney Putnam, an heiress, did not restrain him from skimming her fortune to defray his expenses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

Instead of casually wading into the shallow end, skimming the surface with tepid bits of history about Mansfield’s life and career, Hargitay opts for a cannonball.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

W.E. leaned back and let fly—upow”—for another swooping, soaring, slowly spiraling, skimming superflight.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson