skimmed
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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
If it appeared on a menu, I skimmed past it.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
Based between an ancient burial mound and a rusting tin hut, the men stood on top of a nuclear fallout bunker, while aircraft skimmed them at terrifyingly low altitudes.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
I skimmed the results, and they were all articles about how Lucy had died.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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