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peruse

[puh-rooz] / pəˈruz /


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You can learn more and vote here, plus read some delightful bios on the bears in the running or peruse its hall of champions.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

He is unlikely to donate a volume to the library at this early stage of his premiership, but if he finds time to peruse the shelves, he will find an eclectic collection.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

If I’m traveling and visiting family, I’ll peruse their library and borrow something that seems interesting.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026

Then there is the bewildering volume of files now available for the conspiracy-minded to peruse in search of clues and secret codes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

Finally he wandered off to peruse the merchandise.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

My wife peruses L.A. condo listings frequently and the two of us have periodically gone with a Los Angeles real-estate agent to see new listings.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

It’s a recent quiet Monday morning at a West Hollywood vegetarian restaurant where we meet and Victor, who uses they/she pronouns and identifies as queer, peruses the menu with a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

The 17-year-old from Manchester enjoys deciphering the messages behind plates - phrases like YOU 105T are popular - and peruses Facebook groups where different combinations are shared.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

Anyone who peruses Reddit regularly can’t miss the bots: As one user commented recently, “Pay attention to a lot of the new posts—they all start off the same. ‘

From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2024

An auburn-haired woman with a tight bun and pursed red lips peruses the laptop on the desk in front of her, reading the data from our barcodes.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

As anyone who perused the many clever protest signs could see, there were many reasons why Americans turned out.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

It’s meant to be picked up, perused and admired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

He says he perused various theatre scripts and Second Best caught his eye.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025

Delaware County voter Janelle Tucker, 53, said as she perused the floral section of a Kroger on Tuesday that she can’t predict how Ohio will vote this fall.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

Instead of looking up, Varney perused some papers on his desk as though some imminent life or death decision was upon him and he could not spare a single moment’s intrusion on his time.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“We like perusing and we like looking at flights sometimes.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

When I die, I will not feel like the time spent perusing Amazon search results was important to my story.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Before the lights dimmed for the film, “The Lady from Shanghai” at Vidiots, Aidan Gannon and Jason Fine were busy perusing the aisles of endless DVDs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

It included learning how to speed up tasks like perusing Glassdoor, where people post about their jobs, and suggested the best AI tool for each purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

It was in those days, then, prompted by my natural admiration for the lady, that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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