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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
Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Law enforcement scoured her vehicle for evidence.
—Sarah Prior, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
Police publicly shared images from those cameras and scoured Kesse’s condo unit, the complex where her car was found and wooded areas, using bloodhounds and officers on foot and horses.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Murphy scoured the globe to find actors to convincingly portray John and his mysterious wife.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
Reju scoured 30 different locations before putting its stake in Rochester, said Patrik Frisk, the company’s CEO.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 20 Jan. 2026
To prove the design existed previously, Morgan scoured the country for different types of traffic cones.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
Interior designers scoured each state, looking at house layouts to see which were most popular.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Authorities scoured the house for about 10 minutes before moving to inspect an RV parked on the grounds and an outhouse.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 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
Last month, Madadi scoured her archives and discovered an unpublished letter that Koren had submitted to The Lancet—without her knowledge but with her name as a co-signatory—in his initial attempt to suppress Bateman’s critique.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Law enforcement scoured her vehicle for evidence.
—Sarah Prior, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
Police publicly shared images from those cameras and scoured Kesse’s condo unit, the complex where her car was found and wooded areas, using bloodhounds and officers on foot and horses.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Murphy scoured the globe to find actors to convincingly portray John and his mysterious wife.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
Reju scoured 30 different locations before putting its stake in Rochester, said Patrik Frisk, the company’s CEO.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 20 Jan. 2026
To prove the design existed previously, Morgan scoured the country for different types of traffic cones.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
Interior designers scoured each state, looking at house layouts to see which were most popular.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Authorities scoured the house for about 10 minutes before moving to inspect an RV parked on the grounds and an outhouse.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
Verb
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According to body camera footage, Grayson and sheriff's Deputy Dawson Farley, who was not charged, searched outside Massey's home before meeting her at her door.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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In addition to the murder and firearm charges, there was also the question of whether Mangione’s backpack, which was searched while he was being detained in Altoona, would be admissible as evidence in the case.—
Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
30 Jan. 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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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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In 1916, the Tri-State/Denver Buddhist Temple, also known as the Denver Buddhist Church at the time, was founded at 1950 Lawrence St.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 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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But before the country could commemorate him, and ahead of his funeral Wednesday, forensic teams combed a cemetery in northern Gaza, working to locate, exhume and identify his remains as part of a broad effort involving search teams, intelligence officers and forensic dentists.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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To help verify the deportees' stories for Human Rights Watch, the team of students combed through open source data for weeks.—
Mirella Brussani,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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