perused

past tense of peruse

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Recent Examples of perused Maya and Callum, both smiling happily at each other, perused the menu. — Deepa Fernandes, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026 Steele perused them on the regular, looking to pad his newsletter. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Several Ghana flags waved proudly during the windy day as supporters perused the streets around the Sheraton. — Pj Green july 1, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026 Anyone familiar with the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter-registration numbers or who perused some of the better polls before the primary would not be the slightest bit surprised by this result. — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 June 2026 Last week, my daughter and I perused the menu online together, and she was drawn to the Falafel & Farro Bowls with Feta, Veggies & Garlic Tahini Sauce. — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 May 2026 At the hotel Wednesday afternoon, the main stage was still being set up as guests perused convention hall booths featuring political and media groups. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026 My previous mock draft can be perused here. — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026 Hitler’s personal copy of History of the Expedition, the narrative of the tragic Wegener venture, can be perused in the rare-book collection at the Library of Congress among the 1,200 or so remnant volumes from Hitler’s private library. — Timothy W. Ryback, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perused
Verb
  • Mercury in your 7th House quincunxes Saturn in your private 12th, making relationships, conversations, and unspoken needs harder to read at first.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The king-size bed had a pristine, cloud-white duvet and sheets; by the foot of it sat a lounge chair and ottoman ideal for reading.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As for the plane in question, this is a variant of the venerable F-16 and is a heavily modernized version featuring, among other features, APG-83 Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • GPTZero also scanned 300 of the roughly 20,000 submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and found more than 50 hallucinated citations.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Perused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perused. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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