as in to search
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 scour
Search teams scoured the area trying to find him amid a storm, deputies said.
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Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Eerie photos found after submarine scouring Loch Ness spots decades-old camera trap
April 2, 2025 2:42 PM
This story was originally published April 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
That’s sort of what artificial intelligence (AI) does when scouring data.
—Maxwell Alles, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Throughout McPherson’s absence, her fans and followers, as well as the merely curious, had scoured the Venice Beach area and beyond for clues about her fate.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
See it March 21, 2025 1:50 PM Read Next
World
Eerie photos found after submarine scouring Loch Ness spots decades-old camera trap
April 2, 2025 2:42 PM
This story was originally published April 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
That’s sort of what artificial intelligence (AI) does when scouring data.
—Maxwell Alles, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Throughout McPherson’s absence, her fans and followers, as well as the merely curious, had scoured the Venice Beach area and beyond for clues about her fate.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scour
Verb
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Elsewhere, investigators searched the house, the barn and even the pond.—
Susan Mallie,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Investigators are searching for the suspect, described as a man in his 20s or 30s wearing all black and black headphones.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Apr. 2025
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With Mark Scheifele and Connor cycling on the outside, trying desperately to find a chance in the middle, Iafallo drove to the net and jumped on a Scheifele rebound, scoring the game-tying goal while off balance in the slot.—
Jeremy Rutherford,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Those few minutes sent students scrambling for cover and barricading themselves around campus until authorities found them.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Scour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scour. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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