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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
Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Researchers scoured reports of heart attacks and similar issues in Germany during the month-long tournament.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Police, family members and volunteers scoured the small community of Thorntown in Boone County for several days.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
For starters, Mance and his wardrobe assistants scoured the internet for specific designer pieces that CBK wore during the decade, everything from Yohji Yamamoto to Prada to Hermès Birkin bags.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026
All entrances to the business were blocked off as investigators scoured the area.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
Last month, Madadi scoured her archives and discovered an unpublished letter that Koren had submitted to The Lancet—without her knowledge but with her name as a co-signatory—in his initial attempt to suppress Bateman’s critique.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Police publicly shared images from those cameras and scoured Kesse’s condo unit, the complex where her car was found and wooded areas, using bloodhounds and officers on foot and horses.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Murphy scoured the globe to find actors to convincingly portray John and his mysterious wife.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 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
Investigators again scoured the desert brush outside the Tucson home of Nancy Guthrie.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Researchers scoured reports of heart attacks and similar issues in Germany during the month-long tournament.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Police, family members and volunteers scoured the small community of Thorntown in Boone County for several days.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
For starters, Mance and his wardrobe assistants scoured the internet for specific designer pieces that CBK wore during the decade, everything from Yohji Yamamoto to Prada to Hermès Birkin bags.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026
All entrances to the business were blocked off as investigators scoured the area.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
Last month, Madadi scoured her archives and discovered an unpublished letter that Koren had submitted to The Lancet—without her knowledge but with her name as a co-signatory—in his initial attempt to suppress Bateman’s critique.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Police publicly shared images from those cameras and scoured Kesse’s condo unit, the complex where her car was found and wooded areas, using bloodhounds and officers on foot and horses.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Murphy scoured the globe to find actors to convincingly portray John and his mysterious wife.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
Verb
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British police searched two homes linked to Peter Mandelson on Friday investigating alleged misconduct in public office over leaked government secrets to Jeffrey Epstein.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Bernier said schools had not been searched as of that evening.—
Steve Patterson,
Florida Times-Union,
6 Feb. 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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Meanwhile the National Citizen Party (NCP), a political party founded by students following the uprising, has struggled to meaningfully muscle its way into Bangladesh’s fractious and often violent political scene.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Who founded Black History Month?—
Alex Perry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Feb. 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
Verb
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But before the country could commemorate him, and ahead of his funeral Wednesday, forensic teams combed a cemetery in northern Gaza, working to locate, exhume and identify his remains as part of a broad effort involving search teams, intelligence officers and forensic dentists.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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To help verify the deportees' stories for Human Rights Watch, the team of students combed through open source data for weeks.—
Mirella Brussani,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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