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In the joke that inspires the special’s title, she measures an Instagram comment’s subzero value in a wide scope, lampooning the communal yet cartoonish nature of our endless scroll.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
"If people want to doom scroll… that's fine, that's up to them."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Researchers in Italy announced in June the first complete virtual unrolling of a scroll, which turned out to be a treatise on ethics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
If you scroll through Twitter, you might encounter Tanden engaging in a testy back-and-forth with progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Those are the emperor’s great deeds,” he said as the stonecutter crawled on his hands and knees to retrieve the scroll.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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The text scrolls as he speaks, and it can also be controlled via a ring on his finger.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The technology is transforming the work of historians not only by decoding documents, but also by analysing millions of medieval manuscripts or helping read ancient scrolls.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Shalom, the Hebrew word for peace and wholeness, appears after a crisis in the Book of Numbers, and it is written with a break in its third letter in all Torah scrolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
Now I bring up a search, then tap Pirate's Den when the result scrolls by.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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He took out his phone and scrolled old pictures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
A few days later, early in the morning, I got the acceptance email while I scrolled through my phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
When Maitri Sanghvi scrolled through TikTok, "Japan just kept popping up," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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
Mrs. Richardson leaned over the desktop and scrolled quickly through the list.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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NEW YORK—We’ve spent the last decade scrolling on iPhones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
However, the results do not establish that scrolling directly causes the observed differences in cognitive performance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
I try to distract myself by stalking my own Tumblr, scrolling through my posts in reverse order.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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