flip through
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Now it’s like watching someone flip through the pages of the menu at the Cheesecake Factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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 pull it out from the hollow and flip through the pages, looking for signs of an intruder, until I come to the end of the chapter I wrote last week.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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