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It's probably something most of us skip or skim through - but it's important to read the small print when you buy a ticket, says Harry Kind from consumer group Which?.

From BBC • May 2, 2024

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

Many people try to skim through this section any create something “easy,” but your passcode shouldn’t be taken lightly.

From Fox News • Jan. 17, 2020

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

From "Legend" by Marie Lu




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