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He took the extra time to brush his teeth and comb his hair, before putting on his blue jumpsuit and getting ushered into a van in handcuffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Webber said his team, who head to the beach early with a tractor to comb through the sand, planned for these events.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Agents run the images through facial recognition programs to sift for names, the officials said, and comb through intercepted phone calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Thanks to “Cosmic Music,” anyone interested in her life and work doesn’t have to go comb through microfilm or ancient magazines to learn more about this unbelievably accomplished and completely fascinating human being.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
Mom put the comb on a towel and then closed her eyes, pressing her fingers against her temples.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
All of us — probably the Newsoms included — will just have to wait to see if the fine-tooth combs of the feds pick up any dirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Depending on where in the electromagnetic spectrum this ruler sits, scientists talk about optical, radio, or terahertz frequency combs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2025
Polygenic scoring combs through a person's DNA and calculates how likely they may be to develop a disease.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
First, it combs through what can be tens of thousands of recorded sales calls with customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
She doesn’t finish, combs a hand through her hair—black and bombed-out like mine—turns to Dad.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
An AFP journalist at the scene saw numerous emergency vehicles lining a nearby road and a large tent erected as police combed the area.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
To find out, my research team combed the entire U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The May PCE report isn’t likely to be taken for granted by the market; it will be combed carefully and methodically for signs to either add to or dial back rate-hike bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
In the days after the deadly explosion, detectives and bomb technicians, using search warrants, combed a yacht and a storage lockup in Marina del Rey.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
She combed so fast that the snarls hurt dreadfully.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lines of police officers were combing the ground near the car in the search for clues.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
But after combing through the info we do have, Slate’s Heather Schwedel renders this brutally honest verdict.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Many Venezuelans were combing through wreckage in search of loved ones, while others turned to social media in an effort to find relatives and friends who had vanished in the disaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Investors have been combing Huang’s comments for signs of movement in Nvidia’s effort to sell chips in China, Rhind said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The searchlights were combing the sky and the antiaircraft guns were firing as usual as the Po-2s approached the enemy lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
