peruse

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

Then there is the bewildering volume of files now available for the conspiracy-minded to peruse in search of clues and secret codes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 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

Their paths initially crossed at the Anaheim public library, where they went to peruse its Disneyland collection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

It took only a few seconds to peruse my limited options.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

When Parkkinen wants to expand the class’ repertoire, he visits Los Angeles’ Central Library and peruses the performance section; recently he was inspired by exercises found in a 1920s book for vaudevillians.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

The general picks up a page from the folder and peruses it.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

It’s meant to be picked up, perused and admired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

She perused grotesque album covers while I investigated the indie art studios upstairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

On a Friday morning in late October, at the nursery’s last monthly open house of the year, Cynthia Deery perused the plants on sale.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

"The courts have perused hundreds of pages of documents to reach this decision. For Parliament simply to say the facts are different would be constitutionally really quite extraordinary."

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2023

Mr. St. John—sitting as still as one of the dusty pictures on the walls, keeping his eyes fixed on the page he perused, and his lips mutely sealed—was easy enough to examine.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Les Bleus, as the team is known, will be perusing the breakfast buffet and padding around the plush carpets of Boston’s Four Seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

With no formal engineering background, Richardson began collecting information online, perusing old manuals, learning through trial and error.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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

I don't know why Photo Drive-Up enjoyed torturing their customers, but they made you take your passport photo out in the open—so that anyone perusing the new-releases aisle could watch.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi