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scroll

[skrohl] / skroʊl /
NOUN
rolled sheet, especially a manuscript
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A majority of Europeans surveyed in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain, for a YouGov poll published on Thursday want platforms to remove "harmful" design features like endless scroll and personalised content feeds.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

We scroll through videos starring unruly passengers or mangled bags, and read about the last resting place for lost luggage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Other treasures on view include a charred 18th-century Torah scroll that survived the British ransacking of a synagogue, George Washington’s inaugural chair and Bible, and a New York printing of the Declaration of Independence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Play as Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El, while the game’s credits roll, zapping the names of developers with her laser vision as they scroll past to score extra points you can redeem in the SuperShop.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

I pull out my phone and scroll through it, looking for what I missed.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

"There's a million different ones. Different times of the day," says the 30-year-old as she scrolls through the alerts on her phone.

From BBC Jul. 13, 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

The girls knew people like Fishtail’s father, Day Thunder, who kept the records for the religious gatherings, the Midewiwin, and etched stories and songs on scrolls made of birchbark.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

In the hours after he was re-elected, councillor Shazad Fazal scrolled through the messages he had been sent on Facebook.

From BBC May 15, 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

He scrolled through his phone contacts until he saw “Supervisor” typed below a name.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 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

As he scrolled through the forums, clicking on threads, a little pop-up window appeared at the top of his screen.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

“These features fuel the user’s urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into ‘autopilot mode’, contributing to unhealthy habits and compulsive use,” the commission said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

You’re scrolling, looking for one person that’s like, “this guy stinks” and then you go, “that’s my day. This is what everyone thinks of me right now.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

One depicts the Buddha scrolling on a smart phone.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

And these furtive ads are so prevalent that mere diligence in scrolling or brush-ups on digital literacy aren’t sufficient solutions.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

I’d been scrolling around online for an hour looking for a dress for an event I had in a few weeks, and absolutely nothing looked right.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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