pore over

phrasal verb

pored over; poring over; pores over

: to read or study (something) very carefully

He pored over the map for hours.

Examples of pore over in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Local press and Indian social media users have also pored over speculation over everything from the dinner menu to the items of jewelry that might be on display from the family’s sizable collection. —Oscar Holland, CNN, 12 July 2024

Five years later, The Times has pored over hundreds of pages of court documents and cellphone records to reconstruct Skaggs’ final hours. —Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024

And in the middle of it all, a short, white-haired professor is sitting at a desk, poring over some sheets of paper. —Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024

But, in the countdown to this year’s Olympics, far more fun than reviewing the facts and figures from 1924 is poring over the surviving images from those Games. —Marley Marius, Vogue, 22 June 2024