skim
Example Sentences
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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
"It's important we don't skim over what happened."
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
And a casual skim of social media posts and comment threads, then and now, showed that people were rooting for the couple.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024
I skim straight down the paper, seeing these words without really reading them, because the phrase that matters most is penned at the very end.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
Vocabulary lists containing skim
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Blanch, Poach, and Scald: Cooking Methods
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 6
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