Meaning & use
Perused
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Read something carefully and thoroughly, examining it in detail.
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She perused the contract line by line before signing it.
He perused the museum's archives for weeks while researching his book.
A note on using this word
Perused traditionally means to read carefully, but it is now also widely used informally to mean the opposite — to skim or glance over casually — a usage many style guides still consider incorrect.
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