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glance over

verb

Definitions

  1. to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes

    • "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.
    • When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for glance over. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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