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scroll

[skrohl] / skroʊl /
NOUN
rolled sheet, especially a manuscript
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You don’t have to scroll far on social media to find travel hacks from influencers, wannabe influencers, travel agents, frequent fliers and people trying to sell you something.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Brussels has called out risks for children linked to Facebook and Instagram features including endless scroll, highly personalised feeds and the automatic playback of videos.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Not only are the states seeking billions of dollars from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

A few minutes later Sela had presented Chickenhound with a scroll of bark that she had written upon.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

She scrolls job advertisements online, fearful of internet scammers preying on her.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

She said the birch-bark scrolls I used when I first came to the wilderness were too fragile for notes, but I still have them and they are as good as ever.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Both were littered with sports events, which I scrolled past, but also had sections for elections, politics, tech and a lot more.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Tadeh Ghazalian woke up on Thursday morning and scrolled Instagram, where he saw a video of a broken water main and a deluge of water spilling onto the street — right by his restaurant.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Her voice broke as she scrolled through dozens of photos and videos on her phone.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

I scrolled to page 2 and found some that had.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

“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

Experts point to strategies companies use to encourage scrolling, like never-ending feeds, intermittent rewards and time-sensitive notifications.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Dish, who now works as a financial planner, says she would buy "pretty much anything that was trending" but her biggest vice was scrolling on shopping apps to pass the time.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Once while scrolling, she stopped to admire pictures of a garden on her feed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

It was their conversation that was scrolling down the right side of the screen.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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