scan
verb (used with object)
to glance at or over or read hastily.
has scanned
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present perfectof scan (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The San Francisco-based non-profit over the past decade has scanned millions of print books and lent out the digital copies for free.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2023
The agency has scanned more than 120,000 paper forms related to unemployment taxes, a twenty-fold increase compared with all of 2022.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
It has scanned for a while that Musk would still make some moves that worsen the Twitter experience for most people, and it looks like that is already happening on the moderation front.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022
Baniwa has scanned some of the historic images featured in the show and digitally layered his own drawings over their surfaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
In vain he has scanned the windows, seeking for some familiar face.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
