peruse
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He is unlikely to donate a volume to the library at this early stage of his premiership, but if he finds time to peruse the shelves, he will find an eclectic collection.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
In 2020, a house hunter in Boise, Ida., could peruse over 20 properties for sale before encountering one listed for $1 million or more.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
It is increasingly becoming a social network, where users go to peruse work by multiple authors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Other workplace issues frame the union fight ahead, such as a properly functioning air conditioning system coming off the heels of a sweltering summer when people crowded the store to peruse its products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Finally he wandered off to peruse the merchandise.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
My wife peruses L.A. condo listings frequently and the two of us have periodically gone with a Los Angeles real-estate agent to see new listings.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
The 17-year-old from Manchester enjoys deciphering the messages behind plates - phrases like YOU 105T are popular - and peruses Facebook groups where different combinations are shared.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
Anyone who peruses Reddit regularly can’t miss the bots: As one user commented recently, “Pay attention to a lot of the new posts—they all start off the same. ‘
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2024
And yet large themes are present if one peruses the game with patience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
An auburn-haired woman with a tight bun and pursed red lips peruses the laptop on the desk in front of her, reading the data from our barcodes.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
As anyone who perused the many clever protest signs could see, there were many reasons why Americans turned out.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025
It’s meant to be picked up, perused and admired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Along Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon, Canadian tourist Harpreet Kaur, 24, perused shops with her cousins and uncle in tow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
He says he perused various theatre scripts and Second Best caught his eye.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
“What are you shushing him for?” asked Kid Sampson, peeling a tangerine with his front teeth as he perused the dogeared pages of a comic book.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
While perusing them, he said he discovered that the foreword to their book had been plagiarized from an article written by a BBC reporter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
When perusing our final list of the 101 best book club picks, my eyes popped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
It's a story I first stumbled on almost a decade ago while perusing the newspaper archives – and the more I dug, the more I discovered.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
So next time you’re in the herb aisle, perusing the verdant options, bypass the usual suspects.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
He took refuge in perusing the letter again.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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