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perusal

[puh-roo-zuhl] / pəˈru zəl /


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From his earliest days Mr. King wrote—and rewrote—a great deal, and it seems few of his pages escaped Ms. Bicks’s perusal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Based on a perusal of Glassdoor and Salary.com, he said, the average corporate Target salary ran at about $90,000 to $100,000 a year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025

Smith’s filing, for Judge Tanya Chutkan’s perusal, argues that Trump’s actions fell well outside his official duties as president.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2024

Not that you might know the social trauma from casual perusal of most of this work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

She ended this deep perusal by tying a green ribbon in her hair.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison




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