leaf through

phrasal verb

leafed through; leafing through; leafs through
: to turn the pages of (a book, a magazine, etc.)
She was leafing through the magazine, looking at the pictures.

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Holden Seidlitz, a New Yorker fact-checker, leafed through the magazine’s 100th anniversary issue, with the mascot Eustace Tilley on the cover. — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 Happily, the result is that today anyone can come to UM and leaf through the hallowed books to marvel at how Redouté’s glowing illustrations of the wide variety of roses that grew in Josephine’s imperial gardens appear to pop off the page. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2025

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