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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 scoured
Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2026
Authorities also removed another 2-year-old child from the couple’s custody and scoured a field in Moreno Valley, accompanied by Jake Haro in a jail jumpsuit.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Degummed fiber that has been scoured and either bleached or semi-bleached for knits and lightweight fabrics and yarn produced by Culturewell are also available.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
To create the wardrobe for Alamo, his mother, and the other characters in the prologue, Newman-Thomas scoured vintage catalogs and magazines — not just from the late 1970s, but from earlier decades.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
The Last Manager Standing newsletter recently scoured the research on layoff memos, earnings calls, and myriad corporate communications, and developed a list of phrases that often precede layoffs.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Teams of vaccinators scoured the Mennonites’ neighborhoods, offering shots to them and their agricultural workers.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Meanwhile, his fan club spread out in a suite perched behind the visiting on-deck circle, where friends, mentors and family members scoured his every twitch.
—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2026
When run, the malicious package scoured systems for sensitive data, including user profiles, warehouse credentials, cloud provider keys, API tokens, and SSH keys, developers said.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
For months, the casting directors pored over hundreds of tapes and scoured social media and talent agencies to find their version of the Kennedy scion.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2026
Authorities also removed another 2-year-old child from the couple’s custody and scoured a field in Moreno Valley, accompanied by Jake Haro in a jail jumpsuit.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Degummed fiber that has been scoured and either bleached or semi-bleached for knits and lightweight fabrics and yarn produced by Culturewell are also available.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
To create the wardrobe for Alamo, his mother, and the other characters in the prologue, Newman-Thomas scoured vintage catalogs and magazines — not just from the late 1970s, but from earlier decades.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
The Last Manager Standing newsletter recently scoured the research on layoff memos, earnings calls, and myriad corporate communications, and developed a list of phrases that often precede layoffs.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Teams of vaccinators scoured the Mennonites’ neighborhoods, offering shots to them and their agricultural workers.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Meanwhile, his fan club spread out in a suite perched behind the visiting on-deck circle, where friends, mentors and family members scoured his every twitch.
—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2026
When run, the malicious package scoured systems for sensitive data, including user profiles, warehouse credentials, cloud provider keys, API tokens, and SSH keys, developers said.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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Police searched Alvarez and discovered two plates of military-grade body armor in the trunk of his car, according to the criminal complaint.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies on Friday searched a medical building in Carmichael after receiving what turned about to be unfounded reports of an intruder.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
25 May 2024
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There were no young girls floating by in elegant dresses, no scrubbed and spoiled children dressed in their finery and dragged toward churches and pagodas, no whisper of music drifting out of windows.—
Chantha Nguon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2024
Verb
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The backstory The property opened in March 2015 as the first hotel of the 1 Hotels brand founded by Barry Sternlight, and resides in the former Gansevoort Hotel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The Tea Party, that movement of grass-roots right-wing anger that evolved into MAGA, was founded the same year.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Fill the crack in the door with the epoxy wood filler, spreading a small bit of the paste over the sanded area to help close and bond the edges of the crack together.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
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Firefighters then evacuated residents from a nearby apartment complex, and others combed through the debris of the two-story building, searching for people who may have been trapped.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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There’s the distinctive blond tuft, combed over.—
Jay Ganglani,
NBC news,
28 May 2026
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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