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“I’ll bring in my Switch. I’ll bring in my computer. I’ll play some games, do some work, scroll on my phone,” Butler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
Sitting in his van, Jordan watched a wireless broadcast signal scroll down his laptop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Not only are the states seeking upwards of $1 trillion, external from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
I pull out my phone and scroll through it, looking for what I missed.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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From one collection point alone came more than 900 Torah scrolls and roughly 250,000 books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
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
A little later in our conversation, he pulls out his phone, scrolls for a second, then hits play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Beautiful calligraphy scrolls had been replaced by a poster of Chairman Mao, and the knickknacks in the bookcase were gone.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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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
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
Her voice broke as she scrolled through dozens of photos and videos on her phone.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Maggie picked up her phone and scrolled through the pictures she had just taken of E. That was the reason she was late.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
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
Don't allow yourself to be in a situation where your stress relief is scrolling on a phone in bed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
“There’s still something really valuable about sitting in a theater with a bunch of other people. But there’s also a lot of scrolling going on. Who’s generating that content? A lot of it’s generated here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Cal and Nora are tucked into an armchair, scrolling through his phone.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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