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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
Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
Our editors have scoured the market for the 10 best faux fur coats that won’t get you on PETA’s naughty list this Christmas.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a letter to Congress earlier Friday that a team of more than 200 Justice Department lawyers scoured the documents in search of survivors'' names and other things that needed to be redacted.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
As police scoured the area for the shooter, many students remained barricaded in rooms while others hid behind furniture and bookshelves.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of police officers had scoured the Brown University campus along with nearby neighborhoods and pored over video in pursuit of a shooter who opened fire in a classroom.
—Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
Cocilova and her team combed through the business’s customer service FAQs, talked to shoppers, examined reviews and scoured the internet to get a better idea of what shampoo customers sought.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge,melissa Repko, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
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
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
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
Back in the '80s and ‘90s, Star Search scoured the country to find the next big thing, and, honestly, didn’t do a bad job!
—Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
Our editors have scoured the market for the 10 best faux fur coats that won’t get you on PETA’s naughty list this Christmas.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a letter to Congress earlier Friday that a team of more than 200 Justice Department lawyers scoured the documents in search of survivors'' names and other things that needed to be redacted.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
As police scoured the area for the shooter, many students remained barricaded in rooms while others hid behind furniture and bookshelves.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of police officers had scoured the Brown University campus along with nearby neighborhoods and pored over video in pursuit of a shooter who opened fire in a classroom.
—Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
Cocilova and her team combed through the business’s customer service FAQs, talked to shoppers, examined reviews and scoured the internet to get a better idea of what shampoo customers sought.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge,melissa Repko, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
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
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
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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However, former Federal Air Marshal Peter Johnson — who founded Archway Defense, which has trained state, local and federal law enforcement in firearms for the past decade — told WCCO the street is not the place to challenge a federal agent's orders.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The OpenSnow reporting and forecasting service is predicting four to eight additional inches at many resorts between Wednesday evening and Friday morning, although founding meteorologist Joel Gratz acknowledged that the weather models for this system have been a bit confounding.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Also, the grout joints must all be the same depth and texture, because sanded grout is difficult to paint evenly.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
5 Jan. 2026
Verb
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After Shirley posted the video, the Minneapolis Star Tribune visited the same day-care centers and also combed through court filings and state enforcement records.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2026
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The host's hair was styled in his usual gelled-up 'do, combed up in the front and partly off to the side.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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