skimming

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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

The world stone skimming championships have been rocked by a cheating scandal, after several competitors were disqualified for tampering.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

Sure, those are private matters, but skimming the surface like this only serves to bolster an image of an actor reformed.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

I look back down at the crew skimming along the glacier’s surface.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu