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scroll

[skrohl] / skroʊl /
NOUN
rolled sheet, especially a manuscript
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LaManna wondered whether the same approach could be adapted to a papyrus scroll.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Take a scroll through Instagram and TikTok, and you’ll see fan edit-style videos of Ossoff at campaign rallies and in Senate hearings.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

In preliminary findings, the European Commission said features such as infinite scroll, autoplaying videos and personalised recommendations could encourage "compulsive use", particularly among children and teens.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Research shared with AFP by children's advocacy group 5Rights Foundation, found that "manipulative design features" -- like notifications, endless scroll and autoplay -- keep children coming back.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

I scroll until I find Wheel of Fortune.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

Seiler wanted to know whether researchers could recover writing from these carbonized scrolls without physically unrolling them, an action that could cause the brittle papyrus to crumble into black dust.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Only a small number of the charred scrolls from Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri have so far been virtually opened and deciphered.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The competition offered a $700,000 Grand Prize to the first person who could decipher four passages containing at least 140 characters each from two Herculaneum scrolls imaged with X-ray CT.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Dain’s desk, stuffed with scrolls and pens and sealing wax.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

He took out his phone and scrolled old pictures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Metallica’s always been more existential than topical, but haven’t we all scrolled our feeds recently and muttered - “Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“This is crazy,” she thought as she scrolled through them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

When Maitri Sanghvi scrolled through TikTok, "Japan just kept popping up," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

I tapped the screen set into the front of the machine and scrolled through the catalog.

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

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

Below that age, there would be a tiered system of access under parental supervision, and a ban on addictive design features such as so-called infinite scrolling where children are concerned.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Through my work as a stylist and my personal style, I want people walking down the street or scrolling on social media to stop and think.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He laughed and glanced over to Hackett, who was perched on the arm of the couch, and who ignored him, too busy scrolling through his phone.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely




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