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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

Frantic, I hit the back arrow at the top of the touch screen and scroll down to our thread of messages.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

A long line of peasants like Anya waited at the windowed building’s huge doors, nervously tugging at shirts or hats, holding long scrolls of paper, or talking in hushed voices to a person beside them.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

As the patients listened to the Temptations classic “My Girl,” lyrics scrolled on the TV and they were encouraged to sing along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Out of curiosity, I scrolled through a few vertical videos on HBO Max to see what might pop up.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

"All it knows is that the person hasn't scrolled past."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

But as I left Chapter One to check out the desmadre outside and scrolled through social media to see what was happening elsewhere, I felt a vibe I had never sensed among Mexican Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Frames showing bits of various yarns scrolled across the bottom of the screen, and the remains of this morning’s filming still littered the table by the window.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

NEW YORK—We’ve spent the last decade scrolling on iPhones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Passively scrolling through social media feeds or watching one short video after another exposes users to a rapid stream of changing information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Steffi Cao argues that we should be wary of the algorithm that incentivizes mindless scrolling, but there is nonetheless something charming about the wacky human storytelling that drives these videos.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

She is sitting in one wingback with a laptop, scrolling through stories from the Kansas archives, and Molly in the other, reading actual books from Vivian’s library.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline


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