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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
Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
The site scoured search engines, headlines and social media trends in making its choice.
—John Seewer, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
To reconstruct victims’ identities, Yad Vashem’s researchers have scoured tens of thousands of sources, including archival material.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
Powers, a former digital designer for Disney and Apple, scoured thrift shops, eBay and Facebook Marketplace to source the perfect items for the home.
—Natalie Wu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Tasked with replacing the top five scorers, McKilliop and his staff scoured the power conferences and the traditional one-bid leagues to reload, looking for pieces to increase the balance of the roster in 2025-26.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
During the nighttime low-tide surveys, researchers scoured the various pools and found a brightly colored sea slug, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Staff at the liberal arts college scoured all campus facilities as well, Baucom said.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Police scoured Printers Alley looking for a knife even though Skull died from blunt force trauma.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
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
Detectives had already scoured the couple’s social media, trying to get a sense of who the Borgwardt family was.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
The site scoured search engines, headlines and social media trends in making its choice.
—John Seewer, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
To reconstruct victims’ identities, Yad Vashem’s researchers have scoured tens of thousands of sources, including archival material.
—Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
Powers, a former digital designer for Disney and Apple, scoured thrift shops, eBay and Facebook Marketplace to source the perfect items for the home.
—Natalie Wu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Tasked with replacing the top five scorers, McKilliop and his staff scoured the power conferences and the traditional one-bid leagues to reload, looking for pieces to increase the balance of the roster in 2025-26.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
During the nighttime low-tide surveys, researchers scoured the various pools and found a brightly colored sea slug, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Staff at the liberal arts college scoured all campus facilities as well, Baucom said.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Police scoured Printers Alley looking for a knife even though Skull died from blunt force trauma.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
Verb
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Officers searched the home, but Melodee was nowhere to be found.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Detective Jeremiah Hanson reached out to the Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center, a group of nine states that shared law-enforcement data, and asked for a historical record of every time someone had searched Ryan’s name—during a traffic stop, for example.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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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Jared Isaacman, who founded the payments company Shift4, has organized, funded and commanded two private astronaut missions to Earth orbit, both of them using SpaceX hardware.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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All the company had emitted since Gates founded it in 1975 would be gone, the full footprint washed away.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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When the humans return, there are only a handful, better clothed, hair braided and combed, new fashions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Her mother insisted her hair be combed, her face washed, tier clothes pressed.—
Stephanie Mansfield,
Vogue,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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