SCOURING Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

scouring

verb

present participle of scour

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 After scouring a 2002 newspaper article for details, vintage makeup collector Erin Parsons found the exact frosted pink lipstick that still has a grip on us. —

Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 7 May 2026 Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage in the hopes of tracking down and arresting the shooter. —

Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026 His confession sent police scouring the incinerator for her remains, whose partial discovery paved the way for Suzuki's arrest, local media said. —

CBS News, 1 May 2026 Officials said the multi-agency probe into Valente's motivations involved scouring more than 11,000 surveillance files, analyzing over 2,100 audio and video files from his personal devices, and conducting upward of 260 interviews. —

Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for scouring

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As police were searching for a suspect inside the Islamic center, dispatchers got calls that a landscaper may have been shot at blocks away, Wahl said.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 19 May 2026
This was not an adequate explanation, and the woman was now looking back over her shoulder, as if searching for help.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026