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Leaf Magazine Sth Turn Pages Book Quickly Reading

Front leaf through
Back leaf through
leaf through sth to turn the pages of a book or magazine quickly, looking at what is there without reading it carefully:
▪ He picked up a copy of Life magazine and began to leaf through it while he waited.
▪ I leafed through my notebook for Rick Bergen's address.
■ SIMILAR TO: ↑flick through, ↑flip through, ↑thumb through

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