pore
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And while tech journalists and academics might pore over them trying to glean nuggets of meaning, these executive manifestos are not necessarily landing with the general public.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The isotopic makeup of the pore water helped the team determine where that material came from.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
To get a full picture of Aidan’s health history, a clinician had to pore through paper records, relying on memory to weave disparate facts together.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
With no earnings to pore over, investors will be focused on the economic data—and what they have seen recently looks troublesome.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
We both pore over what was just said.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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That creates a prolonged suction effect, allowing oil to move into the newly opened pores.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
At the start of frying, the tiny pores inside a potato are still filled with water, leaving little room for oil.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Those tiny spaces exist throughout nature and technology, including nanoscale pores, membranes, and biological channels.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Over time, those pores can change shape or degrade, reducing performance and limiting their usefulness in demanding industrial environments.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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The release will be pored over for a fresh idea about the outlook for the AI boom.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
The workers wore Oura Rings to track their sleep, and as Moen pored over the data, a pattern emerged.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Market reaction: Stocks were mixed in premarket trading after investors pored over the CPI report with one eye while keep the other eye on Warsh’s congressional testimony with the other.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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One evening, poring through the picturesque archives at the Yale Club while researching her monograph on memory and mind palace theory, Béatrice stumbles upon a curious audiotape.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
The screening process can also include poring over artists’ social media, according to Julie Coulter, the owner of J. Coulter & Co.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
It is a tome, 'Head North,' which Westminster is now re-devouring, poring over for clues about his instincts and how much of what he advocated then he will actually seek to deliver in government.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Amateur held there, and poring over hole locations, yardage books and old course markings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
But soon all her earnings, from clerking at Dickson’s Pharmacy to waitressing at the Eat’n Park, were earmarked for a camera, and she spent hours poring over Mr. Wilkinson’s camera catalogs and photography magazines.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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