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In the joke that inspires the special’s title, she measures an Instagram comment’s subzero value in a wide scope, lampooning the communal yet cartoonish nature of our endless scroll.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
"If people want to doom scroll… that's fine, that's up to them."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Researchers in Italy announced in June the first complete virtual unrolling of a scroll, which turned out to be a treatise on ethics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Every tweet is met with an infinite scroll of rejoinders; no observation she posits goes unpunished.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Their Torah scroll occupied its own shelf, wrapped in the nicest cloth Babulya had been able to purchase in Zmeyreka.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
The text scrolls as he speaks, and it can also be controlled via a ring on his finger.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The technology is transforming the work of historians not only by decoding documents, but also by analysing millions of medieval manuscripts or helping read ancient scrolls.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Shalom, the Hebrew word for peace and wholeness, appears after a crisis in the Book of Numbers, and it is written with a break in its third letter in all Torah scrolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Mygal scrolls through the Telegram app on her phone, checking channels that monitor the direction of drone attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
But Ptolemy valued those scrolls more than gold or silver.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
He took out his phone and scrolled old pictures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
A menu of worries scrolled through my head as I sat with my coffee one recent morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A few days later, early in the morning, I got the acceptance email while I scrolled through my phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
When Maitri Sanghvi scrolled through TikTok, "Japan just kept popping up," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
He scrolled through paragraphs about rivalries, infidelity, and then...
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Critics say social networks use addictive algorithms to keep kids glued to their screens, and warn excessive scrolling can damage their mental health.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Yankovic gets most of his food recommendations by either word of mouth or scrolling Instagram reels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
NEW YORK—We’ve spent the last decade scrolling on iPhones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Passively scrolling through social media feeds or watching one short video after another exposes users to a rapid stream of changing information.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
What starts out as hopeful scrolling quickly turns into defeat, and I sort of wish I could start a support group for all these people with their regrets and what-if fantasies.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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