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Sitting in his van, Jordan watched a wireless broadcast signal scroll down his laptop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Not only are the states seeking billions of dollars from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Just two percent of the 1,000 teenagers polled said they did not currently scroll on social media or watch short-form videos on school nights.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Part of me wanted to tell him that the scroll was mine, and how shocking it had been to see his submission come in.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
"There's a million different ones. Different times of the day," says the 30-year-old as she scrolls through the alerts on her phone.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The old-school kind where everybody is mostly well-behaved and polite, and the audience scrolls on their phones to stay awake.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
On our Zoom call, Herberhold scrolls through the TikTok feed she uses as a shell account to study the Com network.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
"It's the first time that he is wearing tefillin", Bandel said enthusiastically, referring to the small black leather boxes containing Torah scrolls.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
The Torah scrolls were taken out and unrolled so I could read from them.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
Both were littered with sports events, which I scrolled past, but also had sections for elections, politics, tech and a lot more.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Her voice broke as she scrolled through dozens of photos and videos on her phone.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Luka Doncic, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, scrolled on his phone, cornered off by a wall of reporters who all faced LeBron James looking for reasons behind a postseason dry spell.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
A tenth-grader in Oregon scrolled through more than 200 between 9 and 11:40 a.m. on March 6.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
I couldn’t deal with randos right now, so I tapped on Lorren’s name and scrolled up.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
This era of scrolling alone has, as Putnam halfway predicted, coincided with a rise in asocial extremism.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Medina herself discovered a restock of the Tags while scrolling TikTok and thinking about the product.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
The AGs instead lean on public statements by Meta executives saying the company prioritized youth safety, which allegedly are in conflict with platform features that keep young people scrolling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
They allege that multiple features were designed to keep minors hooked, particularly infinite scrolling, excessive notifications and "like" counts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
He didn’t know how it was possible, but he could feel time flowing past him, scrolling backward.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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