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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
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
Authorities described a harrowing scene as the survivors scoured the snow for the missing and waited six hours for help to arrive in blizzard conditions.
—ABC News, 19 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
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
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
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
Authorities described a harrowing scene as the survivors scoured the snow for the missing and waited six hours for help to arrive in blizzard conditions.
—ABC News, 19 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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Broward home searched The Broward home searched by FBI agents is owned by Debra Kerr, a past sales representative for AllHere Education.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2026
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Raids on two coasts Along with Carvalho’s San Pedro home and office at LAUSD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, the FBI provided an address in Florida that was searched Wednesday morning.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
27 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
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Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI staff and researchers, including Dario Amodei, who left the company after disagreements over its direction.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
3 Mar. 2026
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Authorities’ security concerns surrounding the burial location are well founded.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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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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Four people were taken into custody in connection with a home invasion at a residence in Fairfield early Thursday which shut down multiple schools and triggered a shelter-in-place advisory while a large police presence combed the area in search of the suspects.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2026
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The president of the August Wilson Society, who died last summer, combed through the archives of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the library for the show that includes over 250 objects from 1825 to 2025.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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