SKIMMED (THROUGH) Synonyms: 20 Similar Words

skimmed (through)

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past tense of skim (through)

as in thumbed (through)

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scanned

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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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