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as in to peek
to take a quick or hasty look
browsed through the stacks looking for interesting books
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Recent Examples of browse
Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Maximize your visit to the Heath with a dip in the pond, a browse of Daunt Books, and a coffee at The Nook.
Festival season
Our north-west Londoner Harry… in east London?
—Riann Phillip, Vogue, 11 June 2025
Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
Video provided to Fox News Digital shows Westman entering the store and browsing different types of ammunition before looking at different kinds of firearms.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The teeth are different shapes depending upon whether an herbivore was eating a browse diet, which would be like leaves or shrubs, or a graze diet, which would be more like grass.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Maximize your visit to the Heath with a dip in the pond, a browse of Daunt Books, and a coffee at The Nook.
Festival season
Our north-west Londoner Harry… in east London?
—Riann Phillip, Vogue, 11 June 2025
Noun
Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.
—Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
Video provided to Fox News Digital shows Westman entering the store and browsing different types of ammunition before looking at different kinds of firearms.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
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As a popular historical site, tourists would occasionally peek into the space during the conference to take pictures and admire the architecture.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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My trusty spreadsheet peeked at a report from Zillow tracking total home values in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas – including six in California.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The tribe’s most recent binding pact from 1863, which preexists the federal law that regulates mining of public lands, guarantees its members exclusive use of the area to fish, hunt, gather and graze animals.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Sep. 2025
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The 23-year-old singer paired the vintage designer piece, which barely grazed her hips, with black briefs to avoid any wardrobe malfunctions during the night.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Many tools don’t show up in expense records, single sign-on (SSO) logs or endpoint scans.—
Nidhi Jain,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Professor Michael Benton, a co-supervisor on the project, noted that despite the fossil’s small size, the detailed scans revealed its purpose.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Most executives can recite their gross margin, customer acquisition cost and debt-to-equity ratio without glancing at a dashboard.—
Heather Yerrid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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At an Oasis show the other night in Pasadena, California, many people around me barely glanced at the stage.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Browse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/browse. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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