flip through
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It’s more like a flip through a postcard rack.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
Sure, I’ll still flip through my kids’ catalogs, but I feel a sense of relief knowing I won’t spend entire days scouring the web for a few bucks off a figure I will never open.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024
Among them facsimiles of relevant ephemera are bound in mismatching formats: foldout drawings, transparencies, die-cuttings and pamphlets whose archival relevance you must flip through to ascertain.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024
The officers flip through papers as several men sit expectantly inside.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
I flip through the pages, looking at cartoon after cartoon of our story, the colors jumping out at me.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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