as in searching
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 scouring
Facebook Marketplace, Healy felt, would be where Angela would spend her time scouring for the right lamp or the perfect couch cushion.
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Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
And to be sure, the fun of scouring this trove comes from revisiting those book/celeb pairings.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2026
Instead of scouring for seashells like you might in Florida, hunt for the famous Petoskey stones—they're pieces of prehistoric coral reef and also Michigan's state stone.
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Kristine Hansen,
Travel + Leisure,
18 June 2026
This set the astronomical community scouring space in the direction of the constellation Eridanus for potential sources for an electromagnetic counterpart to this event with a range of telescopes.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 June 2026
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Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
And to be sure, the fun of scouring this trove comes from revisiting those book/celeb pairings.
—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2026
Instead of scouring for seashells like you might in Florida, hunt for the famous Petoskey stones—they're pieces of prehistoric coral reef and also Michigan's state stone.
—
Kristine Hansen,
Travel + Leisure,
18 June 2026
This set the astronomical community scouring space in the direction of the constellation Eridanus for potential sources for an electromagnetic counterpart to this event with a range of telescopes.
—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scouring
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French and Monaco authorities are searching for the attacker, whose motive is under investigation, Monaco's most senior government official, Minister of State Christophe Mirmand, told reporters.
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For five days Oswadeliz Núñez Ramírez has been frantically searching for her son across hospitals in La Guaira and Caracas.
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Rescuers have been combing through the rubble of the hotel in a desperate attempt to save any survivors.
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Watchers of the original have been combing through the unrated version, which lists the same runtime as the original, looking for differences.
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“Scouring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scouring. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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