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Thumbing through the other accounts Drake follows certainly didn't help.
Amazon finally realized readers like a button when thumbing through pages.
They were not thumbing through the pages and pages of footnotes.
I didn't see many duds when I was thumbing through the book.
It was like thumbing through an all-star issue of Glamour magazine.
I unloaded the groceries and opened Stephanie's cookbook, thumbing through the pages again.
People wait outside, leaning against the building; they wait inside, thumbing through their phones.
That carefully curated look — the one you instantly recognize while mindlessly thumbing through Instagram — is no accident.
I borrowed one of Stephanie's cookbooks and began thumbing through the pages; then I went grocery shopping.
Sending messages over Snapchat is not the same as thumbing through Instagram for two hours, they argue.
Aimlessly thumbing through the racks, I stumbled across a dark ox-blood red cafe-racer leather jacket.
Thumbing through reruns on Hulu, it quickly becomes evident that plenty of the humor didn't age well.
Ms. Gans was thumbing through some of Mr. Fischer's childhood photos when she spotted a familiar face.
As a boy, he said, he loved thumbing through his family's photo albums. Vacations. Holidays. Reunions. Weddings.
If you like shopping and trying the latest products before anyone else, you'll enjoy thumbing through these launches.
Inside, Aroche was thumbing through an envelope of documents that he had wrung out of the state government.
It's not like anyone's going to be thumbing through all their fond Pokémon Go AR memories on their deathbed.
While thumbing through the manual, one journalist, Nacho Catullo, spotted two whole pages about picking up on Russian women.
Her mom was just ecstatic and her father ... was absolutely silent -- and smiling -- but silent, thumbing through the images.
Thumbing through an N.H.L. record book, he noted that it took Mario Lemieux five seasons to make the playoffs.
Alan was thumbing through his phone in his painfully brightening Cupertino apartment, and the icon was just sitting there.
Thumbing through tweets on Twitter feels like how I imagine it'd be to wade through sewer water in my socks.
That, however, is unlikely to stop others from thumbing through their contracts to see whether they can engineer a move.
Aboard her campaign plane, aides project relative confidence, thumbing through text messages but not, they insist, stolen emails about themselves.
I swallowed my excitement and started thumbing through the available sizes; they didn't have one that would fit my wife.
He looked up to see the co-publisher of DC Comics, Dan Didio, thumbing through his book, enjoying his work.
There's a scene in "Ma" where Spencer sits in a nail salon, thumbing through her social feeds to kill time.
There are dozens of reporters in attendance, but Steph Curry sits casually thumbing through his phone without anyone bothering him.
There's nothing normal about thumbing through a dead man's fully reconstructed record collection and feeling his silent judgements over your shoulder.
The silver-haired bloke thumbing through his iPhone is Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS, considered the best TV programmer alive.
"I recall passing the time by thumbing through the first book before an U.M.M.S. meeting," Ms. Pugh said in the statement.
After abandoning mindless Twitter scrolling, however, I soon leapt to Instagram, because thumbing through photos seemed like a nice way to unwind.
Frustrated, Mr. Aiello stood in the Swenson parking lot and started thumbing through his phone to find anything he could about Wells.
As the documentary winds up with nostalgic 1970s music, it cuts to a swap meet, where you see Saar thumbing through trinkets.
When the college administrator started thumbing through the pages, she found a neon pink Post-it note stuck inside with a handwritten message.
You're familiar with the feeling too; the thrill you get walking into a Sharper Image store or thumbing through a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog.
Besides chatting with friends and idly thumbing through their social feeds, you can now buy luxury bags off China's largest social app, WeChat.
Many of these publications, produced between 1910 and 1915, have not survived time or the wearing down from hands thumbing through their pages.
You're listening to Spotify and 2 Dope Queens all day, while thumbing through all the videos on Instagram and the latest on Snapchat Discover.
Most revealing, perhaps, is Buffett's reply when asked while thumbing through an old Moody's manual if it's like looking at a treasured family album.
After thumbing through a few pages, Slim quoted directly from the book to explain why Trump's governing principles may not always be politically correct.
It's not clear exactly who this man is, but he might as well be popping off a selfie or thumbing through his news feed.
Click here to view original GIFSo what does this mean for those us outside academic circles who aren't thumbing through research journals on the weekend?
"We don't normally file 100-page, 200-page complaints," Dhillon explained, thumbing through a heavy printout of the complaint laid out in front of her.
COME NOVEMBER 1ST, 17 of the 28 European commissioners, one per EU member state, will be thumbing through their Rolodexes in search of their next job.
The stated goal was to increase the number of "meaningful interactions" on the platform, while discouraging mindless thumbing through the feed and tapping on sensationalized stories.
Still, it's easy to forget, when thumbing through its endless stream of glamorous images, how one beloved app is a member of the Facebook family: Instagram.
It's tempting to imagine what we might do with that time if we weren't thumbing through Facebook photos, retweeting GIFs, or spiraling down YouTube rabbit holes.
Here's a feeling every Netflix subscriber can relate to: the seemingly infinite process of thumbing through the streaming service's dizzying lineup of movie and TV options.
For that book, Mr. Stricherz spent 17 years thumbing through more than 100,000 slides gathered from midcentury American families, yet found fewer than 100 self-portraits.
Looking at Mr. Brathwaite's photographs today feels like thumbing through a scrapbook of ads from the "Mad Men" era — except that everyone in them is black.
"It feels like a bad steakhouse," a patron remarked, examining a crowd composed largely of well-coiffed white men in fine suits, thumbing through their iPhones.
Thumbing through the pages reveals trends, most notably that the same five architectural foundations have persisted over time, even as our political systems have transformed considerably.
They wander over to the hip-hop and soul section and start thumbing through records, occasionally pulling one from the racks and mulling it over in silence.
Thumbing through Overview, we immediately understand the scope of our ability to not just build but also design, not only with aesthetics but sustainability, too, in mind.
With contributions from some of the world's top researchers, academics, brewers, and vintners (depending on which book you choose), you can get lost thumbing through the pages.
Thumbing through the photographs, you find a burnt doorway, a tree in bloom, birds in flight, and rather haunting details interspersed with portraits that seem almost indifferent.
As Americans moved from rural communities to larger cities, many no longer needed to shop by thumbing through the catalog; they preferred to visit dazzling department stores.
Thumbing through Teigen's Instagram account, I picked out the dishes that seemed to be 'grammed again and again to build my five-day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner plan.
Bored and thumbing through twitter, this text alert suddenly appeared before me and the first reaction I could muster was Wow I can't believe someone just hacked Woj.
Recently, thumbing through a magazine at the hairdresser's, I learned (after some quick peeks at the answer key) that I have the gums of a 15-year-old.
Later that night, he was thumbing through a stack of art prints when he came across an illustration from a book about medicine of the American Civil War.
Thumbing through a drawer of clipping packets can engender a sense of historical whiplash; a packet labeled "BOMBINGS, NYC" sits almost adjacent to one labeled "BOOTBLACKS," for example.
Cockburn tells me all this casually, thumbing through a trunk of Fernback's possessions that sits on a shelf in the living room of her quiet north Oxford cottage.
Last year more than a million people traded the waiting room for the comfort of their own couch—which sure beats thumbing through a sad collection of creased magazines.
That's okay, because NBC is still pretty good at traditional programming, which is why people still watch TV despite the fact more of them are thumbing through their phones.
"I would lose respect for scores of foreign intelligence agencies around the world if they were not already thumbing through all the emails stored on that server," Hayden said.
The case was eventually dropped, but not without piquing plenty of media attention — all of which is cataloged and chronicled into a book, available for thumbing through at Locust.
Thumbing through the titles, I pick up Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus and read a line from the play: "Exposure iz what killed her," she writes in the first scene.
But no matter how hard it may be to pull that perfect stripe (ahem, KKW), thumbing through the billionth makeup-loaded arm post doesn't exactly make us stop the scroll.
Thumbing through Instagram, he chuckled at a post comparing the appearance of Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson to the '90s R&B star Jon B. "That's funny," he said.
We think we're alone while we're buzzing through the mists of cyberspace — that a Google search is akin to thumbing through the Yellow Pages, because it feels just as solitary.
We spent the hour it took for a repairman to arrive thumbing through ads for Bridget Bardot bras and Plymouth Valiant cars in our copy of Life magazine from 1960.
The residents raced through the layers of images, as if thumbing through a flipbook, calling out the names of the anatomical structures: cerebellum, hippocampus, insular cortex, striatum, corpus callosum, ventricles.
We've spent more hours than we care to admit putting together Pinterest boards, picking the brains of stylists, and thumbing through celebrity Instagram feeds all to land on the perfect haircut.
Anyone who's held their breath thumbing through those pages, one finger on the last entry you read in case you die on the next one, knows the power of interactive stories.
There's a speaker playing John Coltrane and Erykah Badu; teens in the facility spend an hour there, thumbing through books like  I Am Malala and  The Rose That Grew from Concrete.
I'm thumbing through the CliffsNotes of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and this synopsis of Antony's soliloquy at Caesar's funeral is so comically pertinent that I need to share it in its entirety.
Shot on 35mm film with rounded corner – which gives the feeling of thumbing through a family photo album – Two for Joy is a harrowingly honest portrait of a trauma-stricken family.
There's a speaker playing John Coltrane and Erykah Badu; teens in the facility spend an hour there, thumbing through books like I Am Malala and The Rose That Grew from Concrete.
Particularly in America, you're more likely to find a news story by idly thumbing through your Facebook feed than you are to open your mobile browser and tap out a few keywords.
One day after I'd inhaled the movie and it left me gasping for air, I found myself standing in my university library, thumbing through titles like How to Think Straight About Psychology.
Now, after a long day thumbing through bills and working for legislation to protect tribal artifacts, he walks a few blocks to a hotel restaurant where he buses tables until 1 a.m.
While I'm obviously not the right audience for this product it was nice thumbing through the pages to see my photos with my favorite people and the fun cover featured my happy daughter.
Thumbing through handwritten organizing notes and watching video footage of the protest, I also discovered how an African-American lawyer and activist named Florynce Kennedy had played a prominent role in the protest.
The goal is to render a near-naked version of Facebook that allows people to access a handful of core features while reclaiming the time they once spent lazily thumbing through the feed.
In a story recalled by a friend, Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Met from 290 to 21994, was thumbing through an old notebook he had found on a table in Mrs.
Shed your sweatpants and pretend to be Lady Mary Crawley, daughter of an Earl, who runs her father's estate with style and panache when she's not thumbing through Vogue for her latest toilette.
While there's no substitute for the tactile joy of thumbing through a cookbook complete with glossy illustrations, podcasts can offer free, limitless access to recipe ideas and tips from experts and civilians alike.
He was thumbing through Chase's Calendar of Events -- the go-to reference book on holidays -- when he noticed a form in the back of the book asking readers to submit their own ideas.
Today at an event in New York City, the company shared more on its approach to letting users play music by speaking commands aloud instead of controlling everything by thumbing through the Sonos app.
The article noted that Lofgren — who is now an impeachment manager in the Trump case — was spotted thumbing through a paperback copy of the Federalist Papers during the Clinton hearings in the Judiciary Committee.
The "slow web" is all about experiences we can really savor: reading one long article rather than skimming a thousand tweets, or catching up with friends who live far away rather than thumbing through Instagram.
Although you'll also find sleek titles that will make you nervous about thumbing through, there's a clear emphasis on DIY projects here; you don't have to break the bank to walk away with a trove.
But rather than thumbing through Instagram to figure out how to talk to 193- to 21-year-olds — or, Generation Z, as the demographic after millennials is sometimes called — he reached out to JÜV Consulting.
They are thumbing through their income statement and picking off the largest categories to "productize" — first technology (AWS), then fulfillment (FBA), then COGS (the actual products themselves via Amazon's various private label programs), and next shipping.
TCHOURIDI, Niger (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zeinabou Halidou cannot stop smiling and thumbing through a wad of banknotes as nearby several members of her village women's group operate machinery to grind nuts and produce soaps and oils.
That means: not thumbing through Twitter, scouring any room you enter for the best thing to Instagram, or following ten different trains of thought at once like you left all the tabs open in your brain.
There are now additional time-based tabs (years, months, days) at the bottom of the app, the editing tools feel more robust, and Live Photo and video thumbnails will autoplay as you're thumbing through your albums.
Thumbing through an array of Cadillac vehicles on the app, I first pick a car that has been added to the Book fleet but is no longer sold new at dealers – the CTS-V performance wagon.
But is my choice of turning to a stack of Agatha Christie paperbacks a virtuous form of self-care and an admirable coping strategy, while thumbing through Instagram on your cellphone is a self-indulgent timesuck?
Frank Bruni THOSE who've been raising alarms about Facebook are right: Almost every minute that we spend on our smartphones and tablets and laptops, thumbing through favorite websites and scrolling through personalized feeds, we're pointed toward foregone conclusions.
I got my response later that evening, sitting at a table inside the lounge at the Surrey Hotel, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, waiting to have dinner with an acquaintance, thumbing through my emails to pass the time.
Two Florida college students hit up a blowout sale at their local Salvation Army recently and got busy digging—thumbing through the racks, keeping an eye out for shirts with crazy patterns or whatever millennials are into these days.
"By requiring a warrant to search Americans' devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay, this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent Americans' personal photos and other data."
On a drive home from Silicon Valley after a long weekend of interviewing iPhone pioneers, on the I-80, a man blew past me in a Kawasaki motorcycle, doing at least 80—while one-handedly thumbing through his phone.
African-American pianist Don Shirley's record label gives driver Tony Vallelonga a copy of the book before the two men depart on a concert tour of the Deep South, and we see Tony thumbing through it in brief scenes.
Replete with realistic (and removable) imitations of polaroids, personal memos, and sketches, a portrait of the designer is painted so thoroughly its as if you're thumbing through a collection of confidential artifacts that could be sworn as the real deal.
Ray Jenkins, the city editor of The Alabama Journal, was eating a bologna sandwich at his desk on April 21977, 21978, and thumbing through a week-old copy of The New York Times when a full-page ad caught his eye.
We found, pretty easily, without hiring a tour company, and just by thumbing through old-fashioned guidebooks augmented by Google searches, a network of one-man conservationist organizations who knew every nook and cranny of the terrain we wanted to explore.
An ethnic Chinese living in Malaysia during politically restive times in 1969, he walked into the local American library one day and, thumbing through a directory of American colleges, saw the name Antioch, applied to the engineering school, and was accepted.
CreditCreditIllustration by Brosmind In 2013, a movie producer named Tripp Vinson was thumbing through Variety when he stumbled upon a confounding item: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, a pair of writers and directors, were working on something called ''The Lego Movie.
Maria Collett had never run for office before this year, but by now, crisscrossing her neighborhood in Ambler, Pennsylvania, she's an old hand at it: thumbing through addresses and names on a canvassing app, offering warm introductions through skeptically opened screen doors.
Thumbing through the internet's how-tos, it may seem like not a lot of work — just whip up a few brightly colored mocktails, fill a patio with glitzy decor, put on a good playlist, and boom, you've got an ideal summer bash.
But it's her pro tattoo artist who may have the most chill shot of all: instead of showing any apparent cries of agony, he is seen casually thumbing through his phone while the star needles away, making Cyrus look like a downright pro.
Spend a little more time digging around and you'll find nods online, in print, and in real life to the striking visual similarity of Palmer's statue with someone thumbing through their news feed on any given day over, say, the past half decade.
Thumbing through his guidebook, Soto identified red-gartered coots, white-tufted grebes, four varieties of ducks, blue-winged teals, silver teals, oystercatchers, upland and crested geese, tawny-throated dotterels, Magellanic snipe and, on hard ground yards past the pond, another cluster of flamingos.
Pictures of Camilla thumbing through a program in the VIP box between her husband Prince Charles and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were widely circulated on social media, prompting some users to criticize the 70-year-old for failing to show more appreciation.
Which is why, when I recently clicked "play" on Desiigner's new single "Outlet" while thumbing through the same New Music page on the Spotify app on my phone, I was in no way prepared for what was about to hit my ears.
It's the perfect show to watch with your closest friends during the holidays, after you've spent a few hours laughing at memes on Subtle Asian Traits, or thumbing through pics of Michelle Yeoh, the Shib Sibs, and screenshots of "Bao" on the "Kids Table" instagram.
"By requiring a warrant to search Americans' devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay, this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent Americans' personal photos and other data," Wyden said in a statement.
The results, compiled in a book recently published by The Eriskay Connection, are astonishingly convincing; in fact, were it not for its title, Alternative Moons, a viewer quickly thumbing through the pages would likely immediately accept these grayscale images as records of real moons.
The new, radically different, squarish Oasis design is beautiful and arguably enticing as the newest shiny e-reader, but like older versions, the latest Kindle also has a lagging touch response – forget about easily thumbing through pages, writing in the margins or quickly pulling up another title.
Shopping, naturally, consisted of eagerly thumbing through Delia's with a highlighter or Sharpie, putting stars next to all the jeans and lace-up tops you really needed, followed by saving up your allowance to get a leather top from Girlfriends LA or camouflage pants from Alloy.
Facebook and Instagram add dashboards to help you manage your time on social apps I wrote about Facebook and Instagram's new Time Well Spent-inspired usage dashboards, which also let you set in-app reminders to stop idly thumbing through your feed after an interval you specify.
"By requiring a warrant to search Americans' devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay, this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent Americans' personal photos and other data," said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon.
Before you start thumbing through your old Pokémon card collection to see if you have an Illustrator yourself, the card was never in circulation — the 39 cards that exist were handed out as prizes for a three different Pokémon illustration contests held by CoroCoro Comic in the late-'90s.
If you're stuck in a cycle of thumbing through streaming sites, looking up trailers, and ultimately rewatching "The Office" for the millionth time, you may want to set your sights on a smaller, choicer pool of options — like all the nominated or award-winning original series on Prime Video.
Picture an ill-lit makeshift studio somewhere in Cowboy Country, the smell of Bob-brand whiskey lingering in the sweaty air, Dylan thumbing through an old Rimbaud paperback while humming a grizzled version of Frank Sinatra's "The Impatient Years," Kanye in his MAGA hat drifting off for one of his studio naps.
If you're a rereader, thumbing through your old Penguin paperback, those endless wars in "1984," during which the enemy keeps changing — now Eurasia, now Eastasia — no longer seem as far-fetched as they once did, and neither do the book's organized hate rallies, in which the citizenry works itself into a frenzy against nameless foreigners.
While thumbing through hundreds of pages of FBI files on pop-music singers and rock groups, I found a file on the band, and, as this year marks the 19693th anniversary of the Doors' self-titled debut album, I thought it would be a good time to check out why they attracted the attention of the FBI.
" The rigid structure of Alaska cruises had never appealed to me, either, but thumbing through an old copy of "Travels in Alaska" not long ago, I began to wonder if it was still possible to wander the Inside Passage serendipitously as its author had, "borne smoothly over calm blue waters, through the midst of countless forest-clad islands.
In "How Facebook Warps Our Worlds," a May 2016 Op-Ed column reacting to news that month about alleged liberal bias at the company, Frank Bruni writes: Those who've been raising alarms about Facebook are right: Almost every minute that we spend on our smartphones and tablets and laptops, thumbing through favorite websites and scrolling through personalized feeds, we're pointed toward foregone conclusions.
I would say that my dad had a huge influence on me as well, because he had a 25-book encyclopedia set called Man, Myth, and Magic; when I was very small, I would find myself pulling out the books and thumbing through all the pages on astrology, and tarot, and witchcraft, and voodoo and I'd go to school with book reports on all of those things.
At least to the point that he'd choose "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" at a Lower East Side karaoke bar at 3 AM. Everyone else picks Frank Sinatra or Blink 182, but not Fallon, who leans on the bar with a glass of sake in his left hand, thumbing through to the letter "I' in the songbook, muttering to himself like a mischievous schoolchild: "Iron Maiden… hahahahahaha. Yeah.
There's a good chance you read the New York Times (kudos, by the way), which means you're probably scrolling through its website, or thumbing through its app, or following its Twitter feed (along with some NYT reporters), or dropping a comment, or digesting a dozen newsletters, or buying a gift off a newly expanded Wirecutter, or baking a dish from NYT Cooking, or streaming a show recommended by NYT Watching, or generally cursing/praising its homepage redesign.

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