read

verb

ˈrēd How to pronounce read (audio)
Definition of readnext
1
as in to scan
to go over and mentally take in the content of he always reads the newspaper in the morning as he eats breakfast

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2
as in to predict
to tell of or describe beforehand the psychic claimed to be able to read his future

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Recent Examples of read The official logline reads as follows: Talented Saville Row textile pattern designer Kate (Whitman) lives in the quaint village of Blexford, England, next door to her father Mac (Parker), who is long-divorced from Kate’s mother Delilah (McDonnell), a globe-trotting American always on an adventure. — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025 Aside from – but not in place of – the pleasure, the experience, and the life balance, reading, more than any other activity, develops our critical thinking skills, the glaring lack of which was fully on display during the 2024 election campaign. — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement. — Jeffrey Collins, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025 Learning to read those cues wasn't just a neutral process. — Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for read
Recent Examples of Synonyms for read
  1. scan
  2. predict
  3. peruse
  4. review
  5. skim
  6. study
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  • Once installed, the malicious extension scans the victim’s browser for other extensions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • For more basic printing/scanning/faxing needs, the HP DeskJet 2855e wireless all-in-one inkjet printer is a cost effective solution.
    — PCMAG, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
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  • In the first two months of the year, core inflation, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, is estimated to have risen by just 0.3%, Macquarie’s Hu said, predicting that this would mark the longest deflationary streak since 1993.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The National Park Service, which tracks the blooming of the trees each year, predicts peak bloom will be between March 28 and 31 this year.
    — Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • In 2010, Criterion began uploading videos to YouTube of the most notable people to peruse the closet’s offerings: filmmakers, actors, other influential cultural figures.
    — Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Colorful family scrapbooks line the shelves, ready to be perused in one of the Lee Industries chairs.
    — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    — CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.
    — Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of review
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  • Most of the Wildcats’ most incisive passes skimmed across the turf, immune to the same gusts that could knock a long ball off-course in the air.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • May is when the action really kicks off, with live music every Sunday, a Pride weekend May 17 and 18, and the semi-thawing of Lake Reveal, a high alpine lake that skiers and riders try to skim—and often sink into.
    — Anna Fiorentino, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • Those recently unearthed will be housed at the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, where they will be further studied.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Long-running studies begin to bear fruit In the 1980s, researchers studying the autopsied brains of people with Alzheimer’s discovered that they were clogged with sticky plaques made from beta amyloid proteins and toxic tangles made of a protein called tau.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
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