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And a quick skim through Rangers' potential last-eight opponents will have you wondering if you are looking at the Champions League instead.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2022

As I skim through these clippings and photocopies, surprises abound.

From Washington Post Mar. 2, 2022

Quickly skim through your peer’s rhetorical analysis draft once, and then ask yourself, What is the main point or argument of my peer’s work?

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

Among the more consequential headlines I skim through on my phone this morning, India's true pandemic death toll is likely to top 3 million, staggeringly more than the 414,000 officially recorded deaths.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2021

I skim through all thirty- two pages before I confirm something very odd.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu




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