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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

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

If you scroll through Twitter, you might encounter Tanden engaging in a testy back-and-forth with progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

In European traditions, the handwritten Torah scroll, which contains the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is protected with ceremonial coverings and adornments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

I click the backward arrow in my messaging app and scroll down to my conversation with her.

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

Before long, everyone in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg— the men out there scouring the continent for hidden libraries, concealed prayer scrolls, closeted impressionist paintings—will be handed rifles and sent into the fire.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

More consumers were skipping supermarket runs and buying household staples while they scrolled on their phones, the executives said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

A few days later, early in the morning, I got the acceptance email while I scrolled through my phone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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

“Do not get roped into this,” Mom cautioned me as we scrolled through story after story about what Carlotta had said.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

We’ve spent the last decade scrolling on iPhones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

However, the results do not establish that scrolling directly causes the observed differences in cognitive performance.

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

I asked my sister, scrolling through my mental files trying to guess who had been talking about me.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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