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glance_over
glance over
English
Verb
- (transitive) to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes
- 1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
- 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.
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