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is perusing

  • present progressive of peruse (3rd person singular).

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Feldstein Soto could be on shakier legal ground, Friedman said, if she is perusing emails sent by employees to family members about medical conditions or other confidential matters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2024

There’s a food magazine or 10 for everyone on your list this year, and half the fun is perusing the shelves to find the perfect fit.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2022

He’s cut back on eating out and is perusing listings for a motorcycle.

From Washington Post Mar. 8, 2022

Outside a Cajun food truck on the University of Texas campus half an hour later, Rowe is perusing the menu.

From The Guardian Jul. 11, 2014

Elsewhere, it is some solitary old cook, some aged Uncle Tiff, with enormous spectacles, who is perusing a hymn-book by the light of a pine splinter, in his deserted cooking-booth of palmetto-leaves.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various