comb
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Staffed by a combination of HSI experts and outside consultants, it developed software tools to comb the data for information that could help agents pursue criminal suspects.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In addition to state parks personnel, several agencies have collaborated to comb through the park for Brophy including the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team; the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The site also preserved Eoandromeda, a possible comb jelly with eight arms arranged in a spiral.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
She mops the comb plates of escalators, empties trash bins and sweeps the platform of the No. 7 line subway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
His hair was a tufted brown crew cut, as if his mother, Regina, or his sister, Joan, had clipped it one day and a comb hadn't touched it since.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
I certainly stood out among the perfectly creased khaki pants and palm combs and top-buttoned flannels contrasted with my clueless bowl haircut and Ninja Turtle suspenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
With the help of Rydberg atoms, the transformative uses of optical frequency combs can now be extended into the previously difficult terahertz region.
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
But Mama did not come into my room with the bag that held combs and hair oils and ask me to come downstairs.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It came in handy when she combed through it to see if any of the men she dated deserved another shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
We've combed through it all, so you don't have to, and found six of the most interesting bits among the sea of numbers.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
Jaime Quiroga, a 75-year-old retiree, combed La Paz's main market for food on Tuesday but many stalls were closed.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
They have colorful clothes, combed hair, even some sparkling jewelry.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
Over the course of eight months, The Wall Street Journal investigated how the company operated in Michigan and in its second largest market, Ohio, combing through public records and financial documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
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
