pore over

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

Analysts have been poring over Anthropic’s filing this week, and so far are already expecting OpenAI’s version to tell a different financial story. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026

Force rather than from private companies and civilians who pore over government tracking data. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Hung in the den, where King pores over his many books, is a circa 1890 Henri-Fantin Latour canvas of three nymphs. — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026

An Associated Press photograph helped uncover the graves For years, architect Nguyen Xuan Thang pored over photographs from the Vietnam War, searching for clues to the location of the burial site. — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for pore over

• carryover
• changeover
• crossover
• cutover
• flashover
• hangover
• holdover
• layover
• leftover
• makeover
• moreover
• passover