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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Recent Examples of scour
With several teams scouring the trade market to upgrade certain positions to bolster their respective playoff runs, here are the 10 biggest-name players who could be traded before Tuesday’s deadline.
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Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
To reconstruct victims’ identities, Yad Vashem’s researchers have scoured tens of thousands of sources, including archival material.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
Powers, a former digital designer for Disney and Apple, scoured thrift shops, eBay and Facebook Marketplace to source the perfect items for the home.
—Natalie Wu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Tasked with replacing the top five scorers, McKilliop and his staff scoured the power conferences and the traditional one-bid leagues to reload, looking for pieces to increase the balance of the roster in 2025-26.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
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Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
To reconstruct victims’ identities, Yad Vashem’s researchers have scoured tens of thousands of sources, including archival material.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
Powers, a former digital designer for Disney and Apple, scoured thrift shops, eBay and Facebook Marketplace to source the perfect items for the home.
—Natalie Wu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Tasked with replacing the top five scorers, McKilliop and his staff scoured the power conferences and the traditional one-bid leagues to reload, looking for pieces to increase the balance of the roster in 2025-26.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scour
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Searches for the phrase are up more than 600%, and Etsy searches for related décor rose 180%.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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To search the restaurant inspections, type in a keyword or restaurant name.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Nov. 2025
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The ones who needed to leave their mother tongue in order to find their true voice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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More on the science behind the portfolio diet A few small studies led by Jenkins in 2003, including the trial that introduced the diet to the world, found an association between following the portfolio diet and a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Scour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scour. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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