pore over
phrasal verb
pored over; poring over; pores over
: to read or study (something) very carefully
He pored over the map for hours.
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During my visit, when one patient, a 9-year-old, was registered with a commercial insurance, Parmar pored over its payment sheet without making much sense of it.
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Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
DeMoura said prosecutors were ensuring experts were qualified and able to perform mental health evaluations as well as pore over transcripts, digital evidence and the approximately 8,000 pages of discovery presented at the last trial.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Researchers unearthed these findings after poring over thousands of school board policies across more than 400 school districts statewide.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
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Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
DeMoura said prosecutors were ensuring experts were qualified and able to perform mental health evaluations as well as pore over transcripts, digital evidence and the approximately 8,000 pages of discovery presented at the last trial.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Researchers unearthed these findings after poring over thousands of school board policies across more than 400 school districts statewide.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Pore over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pore%20over. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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