page through

verb

paged through; paging through; pages through
: to turn the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.) especially in a quick, steady manner
He paged through the magazine looking for the article.

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Many users found pages through Yahoo-style directories, bookmarks, newsgroups, email signatures, and links from site to site because the web was still small enough that human organization could compete with machine indexing. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 Another demonstration shows the system taking an MP4 fly-through video of a home and producing a vacation-home marketing and booking page through the terminal. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026 Sitting in Roth's kitchen a month before the 2026 PMC paging through the book, the three share memories, and anticipate the upcoming ride. — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 2 July 2026 Some of that process comes through preset technical screens, while some of it is simply manually paging through charts one by one At times, this can be even more telling than having a program spit out names based solely on criteria. — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for page through

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“Page through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/page%20through. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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