skimming

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Michael Jackson showed off his signature move, the moonwalk, on television in 1983, skimming backwards across the stage to his No. 1 hit “Billie Jean.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 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

The world stone skimming championships have been rocked by a cheating scandal, after several competitors were disqualified for tampering.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

And those looks are just skimming the surface.

From Salon • May 6, 2025

She was skimming the surface of the world again, but now that surface was shattered, littered with debris.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez