skim
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One study found that people who consumed at least one serving of skim or low-fat milk each day had a 19% increased risk of prostate cancer compared with those who rarely drank it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
So: Should you drink whole milk or skim?
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
I’ll skim a monologue like a speed reader, then I go back to look at specific words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
I’ve been conducting experiments with how much wiggle room there is on that date — about 35 days max if you skim the mold off the top.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 23, 2025
It was winter, with a skim of ice across the rainwater.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle, it skims along the earth’s atmosphere and can maneuver, making it less predictable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Ben Duckett clips Will Porter off his pads and the ball skims away for his first four of the day.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
While baggier hems are more popular, Turner Allen, 31, a stylist, suggests wearing a pant that skims the top of the shoe: in denim he suggests a quarter- or half-break.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Biskind is just about incapable of being boring, and “Pandora’s Box” skims along with snarky vigor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
I watch as the fleeting flash of bright blue skims the surface of the river and is gone.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
This was not money skimmed from a contract.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm hammered a four-seam fastball that skimmed the top of the strike zone over the center-field wall in the first inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
The drop was driven mainly by falling cheese and butter prices, due to ample supplies and strong global competition, while milk powder prices edged higher, supported by renewed import demand for skimmed milk powder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
They’re skimmed over, but not in a manner that feels reluctant or incurious.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
They skimmed along the bottom and turned over rocks to flush out frogs and fish.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Cleanup teams are skimming and pumping oil from the tributary and deploying absorbent booms and pads to recover oil trapped along the creek bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Entrant Jonathan Jennings went on to victory last week as the contest's first American winner, skimming his stones a cumulative distance of 177m.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
But that is still only skimming the surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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