pore over
phrasal verb
pored over; poring over; pores over
: to read or study (something) very carefully
He pored over the map for hours.
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Hundreds of police officers had scoured the Brown University campus along with nearby neighborhoods and pored over video in pursuit of a shooter who opened fire in a classroom.
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Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
But their lists are pored over for meaning.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
The team pored over 7,000 pages of internal memoranda, technical reports, oral histories, and unpublished documents.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
Television is a particularly fruitful medium through which to pore over family dynamics—often layered and multigenerational.
—Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
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Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
But their lists are pored over for meaning.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
The team pored over 7,000 pages of internal memoranda, technical reports, oral histories, and unpublished documents.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
Television is a particularly fruitful medium through which to pore over family dynamics—often layered and multigenerational.
—Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pore over
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“Pore over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pore%20over. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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