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She rowed faster and faster, until the boat was skimming across the water.

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The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.

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

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"While you walk off to try another machine, the skimming device has already stolen your card details," Stapleton explains.

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But that is still only skimming the surface.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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