perusing

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Perusing the school newspaper one day in 1976, the spring of my freshman year, I saw a little ad in the Daily Californian seeking sportswriters.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Perusing the instructions, I started the intricate dance.

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2022

"Perusing the Crumbl menu this week, I was intrigued by the banana cream pie cookie," she wrote.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2022

Perusing his sparsely stocked bookshelf, I noticed an old hard-bound edition of T.E.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

Perusing the classified ads, McCandless found a used gun to buy, a semiautomatic .22-caliber Remington with a 4-x-20 scope and a plastic stock.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer