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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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Recent Examples of scoured
Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
Olson scoured his medical file and found no evidence to support this claim.
—J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2024
Since the Salvation Army first opened its doors in 1865, savvy buyers have scoured through thrift stores, hoping to find cheaper versions of expensive goods.
—Marina Lopes, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
An Amnesty International team scoured security branches of the former regime around Damascus this week.
—Raja Razek, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Cai also scoured Amazon’s most popular toy section to find out which educational toys are best-sellers.
—Cai Cramer, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Divers and other rescue personnel scoured Green Lake for weeks in a bid to recover his body.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
After the shooting, police scoured the city for evidence, including the weapon.
—Tom Winter, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Crews scoured the lake for weeks using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, but never found him, officials said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
Three nations scoured the deep waters in 2017 during a $150 million effort supported by Australia, China and Malaysia to find the Boeing 777 that went missing midflight in March 2014.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
Olson scoured his medical file and found no evidence to support this claim.
—J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2024
Since the Salvation Army first opened its doors in 1865, savvy buyers have scoured through thrift stores, hoping to find cheaper versions of expensive goods.
—Marina Lopes, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
An Amnesty International team scoured security branches of the former regime around Damascus this week.
—Raja Razek, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Cai also scoured Amazon’s most popular toy section to find out which educational toys are best-sellers.
—Cai Cramer, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Divers and other rescue personnel scoured Green Lake for weeks in a bid to recover his body.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
After the shooting, police scoured the city for evidence, including the weapon.
—Tom Winter, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Crews scoured the lake for weeks using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, but never found him, officials said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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After recapturing Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, which had been converted into a place of idol worship, the website says, the Maccabees searched for pure oil with which to light the Temple menorah.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2024
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After later receiving a 911 call from the teenagers, other transit officers identified the man on another subway train and radioed ahead to the next station, where more officers kept the train doors closed, searched each car and ultimately apprehended him without incident, Gulotta said.Susan Haigh, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 25 May 2024
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There were no young girls floating by in elegant dresses, no scrubbed and spoiled children dressed in their finery and dragged toward churches and pagodas, no whisper of music drifting out of windows.Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
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The company was founded in 1987 by Chua Thian Poh, a high school dropout who got his start making hooks and spikes for the logging industry.Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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It was founded in 1991 by billionaire Michael Milken.Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2025
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Diamant and Kafka combed the park for it to no avail.Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Even better, the researchers at GreenLight Biosciences combed through bioinformatic databases to find just the right gene to disrupt to avoid collateral damage to honeybees and other harmless species.Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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