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
Rather than scouring Ligue 1’s bargain basement, the emphasis was on finding elite-level players who could improve an already successful team.
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Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Officers scoured South Mountain for the lost woman, body camera footage shared by the department shows.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
And the album’s sonic, geographic, and historical fixations scour the continent the singer was touring last year while stealing away to record.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
After scouring the woods for another 10 minutes, the volunteers gave up.
—Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
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Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Officers scoured South Mountain for the lost woman, body camera footage shared by the department shows.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
And the album’s sonic, geographic, and historical fixations scour the continent the singer was touring last year while stealing away to record.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
After scouring the woods for another 10 minutes, the volunteers gave up.
—Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scour
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To find locations, search the Mega Millions website.—
Cheryl Vari,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
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Among the detentions in which allegations have not stuck, masked agents pointed a gun at, pepper sprayed and punched a young man who had filmed them searching for his relative.—
Nicole Foy,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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Some residents have found debris as far as two miles from the facility, according to the Hickman County Sheriff’s office.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Don’t expect to find an M5 in an iPhone, though.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Scour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scour. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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