- present participle of skim.
skimming
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Rentner led visitors around by boat then, skimming over the inundated land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The gangs depend on secretive “builders” who meticulously construct skimming devices that even diligent merchants can miss, investigators say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Whenever you mention stone skimming, it immediately brings up nostalgic memories of doing it with their family - parents or grandparents teaching them how to do it," he explained.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
Smiling, I grabbed the cookbook and started skimming through it, but then I realized that what I really wanted to bake wasn’t within its pages.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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