leaf through
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In your own kitchen, leaf through old family cookbooks or memory-laden recipes and see which ones could use a gentle refresh.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
You can leaf through the full list here, with the latest additions shown in bold.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.
From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023
Carefully, diligently, Vanna Marangoni dons her white gloves: a guardian of memory, ready to leaf through the archives of her husband's life.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022
I used to leaf through her book, reading only the footnotes, trying to memorize all those big definitions, trying to understand her indecipherable language.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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