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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
Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
Our editors scoured the online retailer to bring you the very best Medicube products on sale right now.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 8 June 2026
How officials investigated the scene Police said that the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, alongside the Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations, scoured the sewer systems for any evidence.
—Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 4 June 2026
For months, the casting directors pored over hundreds of tapes and scoured social media and talent agencies to find their version of the Kennedy scion.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2026
Degummed fiber that has been scoured and either bleached or semi-bleached for knits and lightweight fabrics and yarn produced by Culturewell are also available.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
To create the wardrobe for Alamo, his mother, and the other characters in the prologue, Newman-Thomas scoured vintage catalogs and magazines — not just from the late 1970s, but from earlier decades.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
The Last Manager Standing newsletter recently scoured the research on layoff memos, earnings calls, and myriad corporate communications, and developed a list of phrases that often precede layoffs.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Teams of vaccinators scoured the Mennonites’ neighborhoods, offering shots to them and their agricultural workers.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 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
The search for a girl who was swept into the ocean by a large wave with her family in Orange County was ended Wednesday night after crews had scoured the ocean off Laguna Beach for 24 hours.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
Our editors scoured the online retailer to bring you the very best Medicube products on sale right now.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 8 June 2026
How officials investigated the scene Police said that the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, alongside the Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations, scoured the sewer systems for any evidence.
—Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 4 June 2026
For months, the casting directors pored over hundreds of tapes and scoured social media and talent agencies to find their version of the Kennedy scion.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2026
Degummed fiber that has been scoured and either bleached or semi-bleached for knits and lightweight fabrics and yarn produced by Culturewell are also available.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
To create the wardrobe for Alamo, his mother, and the other characters in the prologue, Newman-Thomas scoured vintage catalogs and magazines — not just from the late 1970s, but from earlier decades.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
The Last Manager Standing newsletter recently scoured the research on layoff memos, earnings calls, and myriad corporate communications, and developed a list of phrases that often precede layoffs.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Teams of vaccinators scoured the Mennonites’ neighborhoods, offering shots to them and their agricultural workers.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
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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Officers searched the area, and one of them noticed something yellow sticking up from the weeds near the water.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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Officers searched the car and gathered evidence.—
Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 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
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Verdigreen, founded by Azie and Travis Shelhorse, specializes in revamping historic inns, with three sister properties in Savannah (the Gastonian, Eliza Thompson House, and Kehoe House) as well as the Hudson Valley and New Hampshire.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 June 2026
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According to Solomon Dersso, founding director of the pan-African policy think tank Amani Africa, the US pursuit of its own strategic interests is nothing new.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
Verb
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Searchers combed the land as drone technology and professional divers were deployed, police said in an update.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
6 June 2026
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Those families who filed complaints are in addition to victims who were identified through hours of video surveillance that investigators combed through, the warrant affidavit said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
3 June 2026
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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