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I scroll through the portraits he’d emailed me: two women laughing, a family smiling, and my personal favorite, a pop-artish rendering of Gigi Hadid.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
So except for when I Instagram scroll or one of my kids brings me news from out there, I don’t really get out much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
There’s the human connection—a charismatic seller appealing to you personally, fellow buyers fawning over items you’d normally scroll past, lucky bidders snagging deals in an era when everything seems to come at a premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Of particular concern are those like endless scroll, highly personalised feeds and the automatic playback of videos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Hey, I have a book-related scroll where I talk about all my favorites, post photos, give recommendations. You should check it out. Follow if you like it.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Sixty years after Nirmala waited a week to hear one Hindi song, her grandson Krish scrolls through Punjabi music on his phone in seconds.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The old-school kind where everybody is mostly well-behaved and polite, and the audience scrolls on their phones to stay awake.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
On our Zoom call, Herberhold scrolls through the TikTok feed she uses as a shell account to study the Com network.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
"It's the first time that he is wearing tefillin", Bandel said enthusiastically, referring to the small black leather boxes containing Torah scrolls.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
On a bench with Harriett in the middle, we lean in as she scrolls through Mr. Hayes’s Instagram profile.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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As they scrolled through social media posts about the governor’s race, they found a cause to unite them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Her voice broke as she scrolled through dozens of photos and videos on her phone.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Elliott checked and scrolled compulsively, bypassing the parental controls, sneaking down to grab his phone from the family charging unit in the kitchen at night.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
As I scrolled through posts on WallStreetBets, I realized that the crowd gathered online was all about risk accentuation, not mitigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Frames showing bits of various yarns scrolled across the bottom of the screen, and the remains of this morning’s filming still littered the table by the window.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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“You can kind of see everybody’s profile, so it’s like scrolling on Instagram and you can pick and choose who you want to talk to,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Which makes sense, of course, because I, too, am always scrolling my iPad in bed, wearing a leopard-print string bikini and A.I. glasses.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
To stand on the ground instead of scrolling past it.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Instead of scrolling on, the friends decided to take matters into their own hands and start a campaign of their own.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
He had logged on to the Beecher website and was now scrolling down Ms. Rubin’s teacher page through the list of science-fair projects.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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