skim

Example Sentences

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Beyond Rufus, Amazon’s AI helps sellers to make their pitches more presentable, and shoppers use it to get fit recommendations, skim highlights of customer reviews, and search for objects by pointing their cameras at them.

From Barron's

I’ve been conducting experiments with how much wiggle room there is on that date — about 35 days max if you skim the mold off the top.

From MarketWatch

Cleanup teams are skimming and pumping oil from the tributary and deploying absorbent booms and pads to recover oil trapped along the creek bed.

From Los Angeles Times

When reading this advert, you would be forgiven for skimming over the words "first-steps", as a turn of phrase.

From BBC

He begins to skim cash off the top of her prize money, hiding it in a tin can in their backyard.

From Salon