as in to flip
to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner
Web research is convenient but doesn't offer the tactile pleasures of riffling through heavy old books
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Recent Examples of riffle
Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2024
Keep reading to check out more weekend deals, or head straight to Amazon to riffle through everything else that's on sale right now.
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Amy Schulman,
PEOPLE.com,
6 May 2022
Samindra Kunti,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
Very often, the single word that completes the thought in a Maclean line is the fly that drops perfectly onto the riffle.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
14 May 2025
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Verb
Palm fronds riffled in the hot breeze as the sky darkened and the air smelled, mysteriously, of salad dressing.
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Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2024
Keep reading to check out more weekend deals, or head straight to Amazon to riffle through everything else that's on sale right now.
—
Amy Schulman,
PEOPLE.com,
6 May 2022
Noun
Tanks and soldiers with riffles have lined the streets of the Paraguayan capital all week.
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Samindra Kunti,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
Very often, the single word that completes the thought in a Maclean line is the fly that drops perfectly onto the riffle.
—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for riffle
Verb
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One strong gust of wind can be enough to flip one of these trailers onto its side.
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Pele controls the ball in the penalty area with his thigh, flips it over the head of the defender and smashes it past a helpless Kalle Svensson.
Noun
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Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.
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Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.
Verb
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Planting a leafed-out, growing hosta from a pot is identical to any other transplanting process.
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Twelve-hundred years passed in the shade of the Major Oak of Sherwood Forest before it was declared dead after failing to come to leaf.
Noun
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Brittany Mahomes showed off a head full of romantic wavy curls created by Nashville stylist Brooke Barloe, who posted a photo on her Instagram.
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Steam rises in slow curls from a shaping stand while local kids climb onto high-top chairs and a Coors Light is passed between old friends across the counter.
Verb
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In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.
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His faith becomes tested by his burgeoning relationship with Lilith (Skye Alyssa Friedman), a classmate who takes every opportunity to thumb her nose at the confines of religion.
Noun
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Each has plays — like a slow-roller up the third base line that requires a quick throw across the diamond — that no other position will encounter.
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Today's advanced sun blocking roller shades are designed to do much more than simply protect privacy.
Verb
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My hair, which reached beyond my ribs, skimmed the skin of my waist exposed by the cutouts.
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The delicate skirt skimmed her frame in weightless mesh, finished with floral lace appliqués and a silk charmeuse waistband that offered just enough coverage while maintaining the airy feel.
Noun
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.
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“Riffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riffle. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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