speed-read
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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It’s just a huge ask for a quarterback to speed-read a playbook, go through one day of practice, then successfully advance the ball in an actual game, let alone assemble a drive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Here’s what Smith had been watching inside the audit: batches of 50 ballots, swinging around on a Lazy Susan, as three people speed-read votes in the presidential race and the U.S.
From Slate ● May 23, 2021
I don’t need to gratuitously slap modern writers, but I’d probably make this critique of three-quarters of the books I’ve speed-read this year.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2018
Think, for example, of the many manuals, courses and apps that promise to allow us to speed-read.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2017
She read the books on Obinze’s list but also, randomly, pulled out book after book, reading a chapter before deciding which she would speed-read in the library and which she would check out.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Not wanting to be one-upped by my speed-reading girlfriend, I threw myself into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
He took a speed-reading course so he could plow through all the documents that piled up on his desk—and seemed to read, and comprehend, most of them.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2024
It’s speed-reading a room with the emphasis on the collective, not on specific individuals.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2019
Advice and consent shouldn’t entail a facility for speed-reading.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2018
Some people are surprised by this advice, because they think of the claim by speed-reading companies that skilled readers go directly from print to thought.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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