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Today, the surviving library consists of about 1,800 scrolls and scroll fragments held in collections in Italy, France and England.
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
And the person had enough humor and humility to submit the mistake to my scroll, making fun of themselves.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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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
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., volcanic ash overwhelmed the city and transformed more than a thousand papyrus scrolls in a local library into fragile, charred remains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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
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
Annabeth stood in the back of the room, rifling through old scrolls.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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He took out his phone and scrolled old pictures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Out of curiosity, I scrolled through a few vertical videos on HBO Max to see what might pop up.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
"All it knows is that the person hasn't scrolled past."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
For me, as I scrolled through them at night, as I thought about why I was so drawn to them, I realized: I am moved because they prove the thing I love is actually there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
One scrolled newswires, another showed moment-to-moment movements inside their portfolio, the other three scrolled Danny’s conversations with maybe forty Wall Street brokers and fellow investors.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Steffi Cao argues that we should be wary of the algorithm that incentivizes mindless scrolling, but there is nonetheless something charming about the wacky human storytelling that drives these videos.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
The changes are meant to stop kids from endlessly scrolling and prevent them from using the apps when they should be sleeping or paying attention in school instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“This is about the features themselves. This is about actually addressing the problem, the scrolling, the algorithms,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Social media firms face mounting scrutiny over their use of allegedly addictive algorithms and stand accused of directing users to extreme content to keep them scrolling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
As expected, Dad was kicked back in his recliner, scrolling through his phone.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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