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scroll

[skrohl] / skroʊl /
NOUN
rolled sheet, especially a manuscript
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A quick scroll through TikTok reveals numerous accounts, many of them created in the past few weeks, sharing photos and videos of an elusive black-and-white feline wearing the famous, towering, crooked red-and-white striped hat.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Just two percent of the 1,000 teenagers polled said they did not currently scroll on social media or watch short-form videos on school nights.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

I scroll through the portraits he’d emailed me: two women laughing, a family smiling, and my personal favorite, a pop-artish rendering of Gigi Hadid.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

A few minutes later Sela had presented Chickenhound with a scroll of bark that she had written upon.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

As she scrolls through the music library on her mint green iPod, filled with album artwork from 15 to 20 years ago, childhood memories of receiving one as a Christmas present come flooding back.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

On our Zoom call, Herberhold scrolls through the TikTok feed she uses as a shell account to study the Com network.

From Slate May 12, 2026

She scrolls job advertisements online, fearful of internet scammers preying on her.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

A little later in our conversation, he pulls out his phone, scrolls for a second, then hits play.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

Beautiful calligraphy scrolls had been replaced by a poster of Chairman Mao, and the knickknacks in the bookcase were gone.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

Out of curiosity, I scrolled through a few vertical videos on HBO Max to see what might pop up.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

"All it knows is that the person hasn't scrolled past."

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Her voice broke as she scrolled through dozens of photos and videos on her phone.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

Luka Doncic, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, scrolled on his phone, cornered off by a wall of reporters who all faced LeBron James looking for reasons behind a postseason dry spell.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Moss scrolled down to Javier’s name and stared at it for a few seconds, then hit the message button and began to type.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Dish, who now works as a financial planner, says she would buy "pretty much anything that was trending" but her biggest vice was scrolling on shopping apps to pass the time.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Charting the trajectory of a comedy career is about more than just seeing a comic crush in front of a few crowds or glibly scrolling through their TikTok clips.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

This era of scrolling alone has, as Putnam halfway predicted, coincided with a rise in asocial extremism.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Medina herself discovered a restock of the Tags while scrolling TikTok and thinking about the product.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

Aunt J is scrolling through her Facebook feed, hyped about the fact that the number of counterprotesters has grown.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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