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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
Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
Police quickly scoured nearby surveillance footage to get to the bottom of what happened — one camera did reveal what occurred.
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Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2026
The team scoured documents buried in Japanese and US military archives before conducting sonar surveys and technical dives.
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Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
Michael Foster scoured the Iinternet.
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Anna Spoerre,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Next chance of showers returns by Sunday evening Several weak disturbances will traverse the Upper Ohio Valley, leading to partly cloudy skies, but with deep moisture scoured out, rain chances will be absent for the most part Friday through Sunday afternoon.
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Trey Fulbright,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
Several friends took the far side of the river; others scoured the median that the flood had created.
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Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
In 2009, after having scoured the neighborhood for years, Hermès paid 73 million pounds, or $117 million, for the New Bond Street space, according to real estate sources.
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Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
According to the park, an 11-year-old boy first discovered the tracks after a 1908 flood scoured the Paluxy Riverbed, exposing the limestone.
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Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 June 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.
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Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Out of more than 300 patients who had their neck arteries scoured, Italian researchers reported, those with higher levels of plastics-laden plaque were more likely to suffer strokes, heart attacks or sudden death during the next three years.
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Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
Police quickly scoured nearby surveillance footage to get to the bottom of what happened — one camera did reveal what occurred.
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Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2026
The team scoured documents buried in Japanese and US military archives before conducting sonar surveys and technical dives.
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Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
Michael Foster scoured the Iinternet.
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Anna Spoerre,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Next chance of showers returns by Sunday evening Several weak disturbances will traverse the Upper Ohio Valley, leading to partly cloudy skies, but with deep moisture scoured out, rain chances will be absent for the most part Friday through Sunday afternoon.
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Trey Fulbright,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
Several friends took the far side of the river; others scoured the median that the flood had created.
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Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
In 2009, after having scoured the neighborhood for years, Hermès paid 73 million pounds, or $117 million, for the New Bond Street space, according to real estate sources.
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Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
According to the park, an 11-year-old boy first discovered the tracks after a 1908 flood scoured the Paluxy Riverbed, exposing the limestone.
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Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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But ground teams detected the helium leak in Starliner's service module in the aftermath of the scrubbed countdown.
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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.
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Other video showed massive piles of debris as people climbed and searched around the colossal heaps.
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Since then, she had been spotted on multiple game cameras on other properties in the county but was always gone by the time the area was searched, Sheriff Nathan Johnson said.
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.
Verb
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Amazon‘s Wondery is aiming to amplify the game of Boardroom, the media company founded by NBA champion Kevin Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman, under a wide-ranging deal.
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Things to do Menorca’s art scene dates from the 1960s when the Grupo Menorca founded the island’s first contemporary art gallery.
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Styled by Ursula Stephen, Zendaya’s chocolate brown hair was combed over the right side of her head in a medium-sized wave that moved away from her face.
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Investigators combed through wreckage Wednesday for clues to the cause.
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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