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to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
combed the library for the missing book
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Recent Examples of combed
Laura Schober, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
Teams of searchers combed the shoreline on foot and in inflatable boats.
—Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Victor Campos gently combed away sawdust clinging to Oden’s hide as an auctioneer’s voice echoed Saturday through the Gold Country Fair.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The explosion of attention was traumatizing — death threats slipped under her dorm room door, paparazzi combed through her trash, and she was forced off campus with round-the-clock security.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Authorities have combed through a trove of evidence to uncover a potential motive for the tragedy.
—John Bacon, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
Gilkey-Meisegeier was fired from his position at the school in early June and wasn’t arrested until more than a month later as investigators combed through evidence and built charges against him, according to WMTV.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Before school, her mom combed her hair and set it into pony tails.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Inspired by these adhesive abilities, researchers combed through catalogs of these animals’ protein structures to mimic their stickiest features.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Health spoke to skin and food experts and combed through the research to see what science actually says about caffeine’s impact on aging, both inside and out.
—Laura Schober, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
Teams of searchers combed the shoreline on foot and in inflatable boats.
—Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Victor Campos gently combed away sawdust clinging to Oden’s hide as an auctioneer’s voice echoed Saturday through the Gold Country Fair.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The explosion of attention was traumatizing — death threats slipped under her dorm room door, paparazzi combed through her trash, and she was forced off campus with round-the-clock security.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Authorities have combed through a trove of evidence to uncover a potential motive for the tragedy.
—John Bacon, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
Gilkey-Meisegeier was fired from his position at the school in early June and wasn’t arrested until more than a month later as investigators combed through evidence and built charges against him, according to WMTV.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Before school, her mom combed her hair and set it into pony tails.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Inspired by these adhesive abilities, researchers combed through catalogs of these animals’ protein structures to mimic their stickiest features.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for combed
Verb
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Staffers frantically searched for updates on his condition.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And that begins with changes in the way mindsets are groomed.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Coming to their apparent rescue are groomed, muscular men in polished videos, smoking cigars, sitting in private jets, doing push ups and whispering that men’s pain is because of women.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Advertisement In some respects, Patagonia has hardly changed since Chouinard founded the company.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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With no clear winner yet, the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors, a public-private platform founded by the European Commission in 2024, has been edging its bets.—
Anna Heim,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Still, for all the meticulous panning, the transition of power at the top of the City hierarchy is very different to what was expected to happen when Guardiola arrived in 2016.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Potashnick took skepticism as an invitation to share his process, bringing his roughly 100,000 TikTok followers behind the scenes and on frequent farm trips, offering a glimpse of his team’s meticulous operation.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Claude scanned thousands of systems and identified weak points.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Is this event also a way to make World and the Orb feel more approachable and less intimidating to the public, especially those skeptical of getting their eyes scanned?—
Tanya Benedicto Klich,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But Eliasen is careful not to let scope creep derail initial implementations.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Combed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/combed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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