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to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
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Recent Examples of scoured
Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Celina Tebor, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
The 20-year-old has scoured candidate websites but been frustrated by social media.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
The Foothill League remains scoured with talent, but the coaches agree there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming favorite for the title.
—Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
MorphCostumes has scoured the world for alternatives to Chinese production, including Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.
—Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
When a catastrophic avalanche rumbled over a stretch of the High Sierra, dozens of law enforcement officers scoured the mountainside for a group of 15 skiers, including four mountain guides.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
In the aftermath of the attack on the group’s rescue planes, which scoured the Florida Straits in search of Cuban boaters and rafters attempting to flee the repressive Castro regime, President Bill Clinton implemented sweeping sanctions against the island.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
Chef Rodrigo Cárdenas and his team scoured coastal restaurants from the Pacific to the Gulf for lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch menus featuring everything from sea bass tempura fish tacos and a variety of ceviches to lobster, snapper and shrimp.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2026
Over the course of a few years, Ken Fulk, the hotel’s designer, scoured Round Top, Texas’s famous town for antiques, to give the rooms a sense of place and time.
—Mandy Ellis, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 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
Gone, too, is the heavy law enforcement presence that for days scoured every square inch of Nancy Guthrie’s property, which spans thousands of square feet.
—Celina Tebor, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
The 20-year-old has scoured candidate websites but been frustrated by social media.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
The Foothill League remains scoured with talent, but the coaches agree there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming favorite for the title.
—Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
MorphCostumes has scoured the world for alternatives to Chinese production, including Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.
—Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
When a catastrophic avalanche rumbled over a stretch of the High Sierra, dozens of law enforcement officers scoured the mountainside for a group of 15 skiers, including four mountain guides.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
In the aftermath of the attack on the group’s rescue planes, which scoured the Florida Straits in search of Cuban boaters and rafters attempting to flee the repressive Castro regime, President Bill Clinton implemented sweeping sanctions against the island.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
Chef Rodrigo Cárdenas and his team scoured coastal restaurants from the Pacific to the Gulf for lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch menus featuring everything from sea bass tempura fish tacos and a variety of ceviches to lobster, snapper and shrimp.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2026
Over the course of a few years, Ken Fulk, the hotel’s designer, scoured Round Top, Texas’s famous town for antiques, to give the rooms a sense of place and time.
—Mandy Ellis, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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As Pivetta searched for his accuracy in the first inning, neither the former reliever Stammen nor pitching coach Ruben Niebla had success in getting the righty on track.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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State police later searched the area near the steel bridge and found among the piles of wood chips an envelope bearing the victim’s name, pieces of bone and tissue, a human fingernail and crowns to the victim’s teeth, prosecutors said.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2026
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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
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Its founding principles—informed by an environmentally-conscious ethos and values which ‘protect the islands, support local communities, and do business in a…fair and future-focused way,’ says Dixon—mirrored those at Nikoi, and still hold strong today.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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And the three who founded it in 1998 ran two unlicensed boarding schools in Missouri that have since been closed amid abuse allegations.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 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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Because Buckley has short hair, a chignon or updo was not an option—but combed neatly back with a side part, clearing the face, feels like a very Grace Kelly detail.—
Ana Serrano,
Glamour,
16 Mar. 2026
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Police also covered the lake in those first few hours, and dogs and drones have combed the area to no avail.—
Sarah Dahlberg,
NBC news,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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