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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
Every tweet is met with an infinite scroll of rejoinders; no observation she posits goes unpunished.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
A few minutes later Sela had presented Chickenhound with a scroll of bark that she had written upon.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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
In the center of the room, a long wooden table was cluttered with scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers, and a large bowl filled with jelly beans, which seemed kind of out of place.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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As the patients listened to the Temptations classic “My Girl,” lyrics scrolled on the TV and they were encouraged to sing along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
I scrolled to page 2 and found some that had.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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Yankovic gets most of his food recommendations by either word of mouth or scrolling Instagram reels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
More marketers are capitalizing on consumers’ desire to stop scrolling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Those classified as "light process" users spent less than four to five hours a day using their phones for a mixture of social interaction, news, entertainment, and passive scrolling.
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
When the text finished scrolling, he leaned forward again.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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