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surfing

verb

Definition of surfing

present participle of surf

as in scanning

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Recent Examples of surfing When establishing criteria for purposes of the state surfing reserve designation, factors such as wave quality and consistency, surf culture and history, and environmental characteristics, and management priorities will be important. — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026 And so Africans used surfing to understand how to ride waves ashore in these surf canoes. — Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025

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Unusual states at edges The team examined its molecular assembly using a scanning tunneling microscope.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Visit during opening hours to control the lights and playlist by scanning a QR code — and on Halloween play carnival games in the garage.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of scanning

Verb

Instead of discovering and browsing websites themselves, customers could delegate those tasks to Muse.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Certain Chrome shopping features may also require additional browsing information or settings, including Make searches and browsing better.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of browsing

Verb

Kids get into all sorts of things on the internet, but no parent wants their young children perusing adult websites.

— Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine, 22 Oct. 2026
Charmain Ware-Jason of Murphy’s and Sug After Dark Entering VinoTeca on a recent Wednesday evening felt more akin to mingling at a dinner party than perusing a wine shop.

— Lia Picard, AJC.com, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of perusing

Verb

Gazza, who has been cruising along all episode, doesn’t bowl the judges over with his treacle pudding or his Black Forest gâteau, which is a little bit shocking.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
If Mick hadn’t come cruising into that playground, lights off?

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of cruising

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