as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
the police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic
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At issue is PayPal’s free Honey internet-search browser extension that the company claims will scour the web for the best discount coupons and apply them to online purchases.
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Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
Lawyers working with the Professional Tennis Players Association, co-founded by Novak Djokovic, have spent 2024 scouring the sport’s rules and structure, preparing for a possible anti-trust litigation with the potential to remake the sport.
—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Like those mudskippers, also known as mudlarks, who scour riverbanks for artifacts from London’s past—Roman pottery, Victorian silverware—everyday citizens report dugout sightings across Wisconsin.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
From a temple in Datong, China, that appears to defy gravity to a hand-hewn stone church in Ethiopia, AD has scoured the globe for the 24 most inspiring, extraordinary houses of worship built into the natural world.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
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Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
Lawyers working with the Professional Tennis Players Association, co-founded by Novak Djokovic, have spent 2024 scouring the sport’s rules and structure, preparing for a possible anti-trust litigation with the potential to remake the sport.
—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Like those mudskippers, also known as mudlarks, who scour riverbanks for artifacts from London’s past—Roman pottery, Victorian silverware—everyday citizens report dugout sightings across Wisconsin.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
From a temple in Datong, China, that appears to defy gravity to a hand-hewn stone church in Ethiopia, AD has scoured the globe for the 24 most inspiring, extraordinary houses of worship built into the natural world.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Scour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scour. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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