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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
Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
These casings could be scoured for DNA evidence, and the message left on them could point to a motive.
—Christina Coulter, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
The hue was chosen after Pantone trend forecasters scoured the globe for color clues favored by the design and fashion worlds.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
To make an estimate, researchers scoured websites and trade journals to find every corporate announcement of a new GRAS product during an eight-week period.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
For weeks, rescue teams scoured creek beds, lakes and mudslide debris searching for the lost.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
Our team of experts scoured the market to research and review the best wellness gifts of 2024 with style, function, and price point in mind.
—Claire Sullivan, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
Crews scoured the lake for weeks using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, officials said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Horowitz scoured the lists of dealers from places like Gloucester City, New Jersey, and Oxford, Mississippi.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
These casings could be scoured for DNA evidence, and the message left on them could point to a motive.
—Christina Coulter, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
The hue was chosen after Pantone trend forecasters scoured the globe for color clues favored by the design and fashion worlds.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
To make an estimate, researchers scoured websites and trade journals to find every corporate announcement of a new GRAS product during an eight-week period.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
For weeks, rescue teams scoured creek beds, lakes and mudslide debris searching for the lost.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
Our team of experts scoured the market to research and review the best wellness gifts of 2024 with style, function, and price point in mind.
—Claire Sullivan, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
Crews scoured the lake for weeks using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, officials said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Horowitz scoured the lists of dealers from places like Gloucester City, New Jersey, and Oxford, Mississippi.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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The Lane County Sheriff’s Office added that multiple drones and aircraft searched the area from above while dozens of personnel looked by vehicle or on foot.David Chiu, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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But Horowitz's report noted that the partisan affiliation of the staffers was not imbalanced -- 21 staffers whose records were searched were Democrats, 20 were Republicans, and two worked in nonpartisan positions.Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 10 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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Driven by a desire to fill the standard of care gaps, Dr. Halpert founded Immunocine Cancer Center.William Mullane, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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Roksanda found a white knight in The Brand Group, which purchased the fashion label founded in 2005.Joelle Diderich, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
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Since then, groups in the Netherlands and Belgium have combed through medical records to examine outcomes of pregnant patients with these types of abnormal results.ByJennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
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Think tanks the Health Foundation and the Nuffield Trust combed through official waiting time data for emergency and planned care, as well as a government survey on hospital waits, to find out who was being worst affected by delays.Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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