as in to flip
to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner
Web research is convenient but doesn't offer the tactile pleasures of riffling through heavy old books
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Recent Examples of riffle
Stefan Krajisnik, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
Keep reading to check out more weekend deals, or head straight to Amazon to riffle through everything else that's on sale right now.
—Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 22 May 2024
Hit the Soft Spots Runoff often means not only dirty water but also a much higher volume of water, so don’t be surprised if your favorite riffle or run is totally washed out.
—Tim Romano, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
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Verb
Highlight reels of 13 SEC quarterbacks Milton was the talk of the offseason after riffling passes longer than 70 yards at the Manning Passing Academy in June.
—Stefan Krajisnik, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
Keep reading to check out more weekend deals, or head straight to Amazon to riffle through everything else that's on sale right now.
—Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
Noun
Look for pools, deep riffles, and any area that offers a current break.
—Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 22 May 2024
Hit the Soft Spots Runoff often means not only dirty water but also a much higher volume of water, so don’t be surprised if your favorite riffle or run is totally washed out.
—Tim Romano, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for riffle
Verb
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Oliveros promptly changed her major to communication technology and flipped headfirst into the social media scene.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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United Launch Alliance’s years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, making SpaceX the new reliable provider.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data.—
William Ross,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.—
Beth Kindig,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
Noun
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The drawing featured a bald-headed stick woman with squiggly lines coming from the ears—meant to represent curls.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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Sweeney topped it off with dark angular sunglasses, and her blonde hair in loose, blown out curls.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
4 June 2025
Verb
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The Savannah Bananas thumbed their nose at such nonsense.—
Emma Moon,
Charlotte Observer,
5 June 2025
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The Manchester-by-the-Sea health board has thumbed its nose at voters with callous indifference.—
Peter Brennan,
Boston Herald,
26 May 2025
Noun
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And unlike some of the other options above, Jackson isn't just a threat as a roller out of ball screens.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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So, go ride a bicycle, do handstands, do cartwheels, go skateboarding, go roller skating.—
Brie Stimson , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
25 May 2025
Verb
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Home care providers can invoke this right to stop union dues skimming.—
Mark Mix,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
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Just sandpipers skimming the surf, green sea turtles digging moonlit nests — and, every so often, Richard Gere strolling on the beach.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.—
Paul Greenberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Dec. 2022
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.—
Scott Harrison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2019
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“Riffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riffle. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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