skim
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Rio prosecutors charged Flávio in 2020 with running a scheme to skim the salaries of legislative aides, a case later closed after key evidence was thrown out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The government secured guilty pleas in December from two advisors who worked with alongside her to skim money from Becerra.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
If you’re trying to lose weight or lower your cholesterol, skim milk is better than full-fat.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
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 ● Nov. 26, 2025
Instead, I seemed to skim over the carpet of a corridor.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Think of it as a highly subjective road-trip mixtape that skims through history, one that pauses to consider something remarkable unfolding in a pocket of the country at a particular time and place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Ramsey’s book is just one arm of the multi-pronged complaints that have been lodged against her, grievances that “Shark Whisperer” only skims the surface covering.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
Ben Duckett clips Will Porter off his pads and the ball skims away for his first four of the day.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
While baggier hems are more popular, Turner Allen, 31, a stylist, suggests wearing a pant that skims the top of the shoe: in denim he suggests a quarter- or half-break.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
With fierce, sudden grace, Brent’s arms extend while almost simultaneously, he straightens his back leg as his front foot skims forward.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
This was not money skimmed from a contract.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm hammered a four-seam fastball that skimmed the top of the strike zone over the center-field wall in the first inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Morning after morning, residents would retrieve the bottles of milk on their stoops only to find that a thief had skimmed off the cream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
They’re skimmed over, but not in a manner that feels reluctant or incurious.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
From time to time Ma skimmed out the brown cracklings.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
It’s sketched out for cynical skimming rather than deeper psychological consideration.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Readers less enrapt about the details of these might find themselves skimming sections about them, or those about operating-system updates and later iMac models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Entrant Jonathan Jennings went on to victory last week as the contest's first American winner, skimming his stones a cumulative distance of 177m.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
And those looks are just skimming the surface.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
Gram had abandoned her parasol to the side of the tent and was dancing with Old Joe, her long dress skimming the grass as she spun on bare feet.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 6
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