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[brauz] / braʊz /


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Sharma would browse electronics, fill an online basket and abandon it.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

With more than 12 million people registering for 2028 Olympics tickets, even getting a chance to browse the ticket shelves was hard to come by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

They are essential for anyone who wants to secure their data, stream content freely and browse the internet without worrying about being tracked.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Complex interfaces let users browse match offerings, make selections and proceed through checkout.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

He’d been sitting on his birthday money for a month, waiting for Fiona to take us on the train into the city, to Newbury Comics, to browse through music, comic books, and assorted thingamajigs.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

“I love an expensive grocery store,” says Samantha Pearlstein, a 26-year-old sales engineer, as she browses $85 flower arrangements and $23 salads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

"I like to buy more expensive items that I'm going to wear over the years," she tells the BBC as she browses clothes in a Primark store with her mum.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

The justices pondered lots of possibilities: When a person thinks about taking a trip, or commits to doing it, or browses a hotel’s website, or takes out their credit card to book, for example.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023

Emily Colucci, a freelance art writer, “constantly, mindlessly” browses the online job listings hosted by the nonprofit New York Foundation for the Arts — and last week she found a doozy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

Were it not that the creature browses upon this growth, the streams would soon become choked, and their beds would become dismal swamps, of the kind common to Africa.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

The woman browsed through old photos of her daughters, their old school projects and other files forgotten over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Among them, the height to volume model was applied to heavily browsed willows with unusual growth forms, even though the model was not designed for such distorted shapes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

Rae said Murrell browsed through their stock and bought a pendant called the Mirrie Dancer Drongs.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Anyone who has watched more than one Apple product announcement or browsed its website will see a remarkable coincidence: almost every screen appears to show the time as 9:41 am.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

At a Shanghai bus station, Shin browsed through a Korean-language magazine, found a list of Korean restaurants, and went off again in search of work.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

The researchers hypothesize that the agents were using the tool to get around restrictions on their web browsing, for instance to access websites that have blocks against automated access.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

For the channel surfers: If you’re looking for a new TV show to watch, consider browsing Slate’s list of the 40 best stand-alone episodes of all time.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Social media algorithms are a powerful feature of online life, serving up content to users based on their browsing habits or personal data.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

And if all that browsing makes you hungry and you spot Tom’s Smokehouse food truck, get the brisket.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The e-mailed stories ranged from suspensions and expulsions for “antisocial behavior” to censorship of student publications to new restrictions on computing, Web browsing, and especially gaming.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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