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[skim] / skɪm /




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So: Should you drink whole milk or skim?

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026

I’ll skim a monologue like a speed reader, then I go back to look at specific words.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

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

The overall tension allows us to skim over the flaws and foibles in the script, especially when the resolution is so hard-fought.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Where she saw a lonesome chair left like an orphan in a park strip facing the river that other Violet saw how the ice skim gave the railing’s black poles a weapony glint.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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