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Meanings of perusing in English

Catalan
lectura pausada

Reading carefully with intent to remember.

lectura pausada
Usage of perusing in English
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He was no longer paying attention to me, just perusing the data.
Sh*t my dad says
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After perusing the baseball news he turned back to the front page.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth
3
General Pershing glanced up from a pile of papers he was perusing.
The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders; Or, the Fighting Canadians...
4
Benito stopped the horse and bought a paper, perusing the headlines feverishly.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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For this we must make allowance, in perusing accounts of conflicting parties.
History of the Conquest of Peru
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He went home and spent the day perusing his text-book on logic.
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel
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But for those eager to begin perusing the wares, where to begin?
Wired
8
After perusing the letter, he ordered her immediately out of his presence.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territ...
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Blake looked up curiously from a letter he had been eagerly perusing.
The Net
10
So those are some of the fun topics that I'll be perusing.
The new yorker
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He stopped and leaned away from me, perusing my face with interest.
The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars / Being the Posthumous Pa...
12
Its title is conducive to its perusing, and its reading to anticipation.
Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
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She put down the folder with the correspondence she had been perusing.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
14
What was it that suggested the design of perusing my father's manuscript?
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
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While perusing the pies, someone you haven't seen for several years walks up.
Feminist dot com
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Nor was he less diligent in perusing the stores of the Academy Library.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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Frequent collocations
Translations for perusing
Perusing through the time
Perusing across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common