pore
Example Sentences
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This is a reminder of a fundamental truth when the details of any Budget are being pored over: it is an exercise in choices.
From BBC
Sitting in a recliner in his library, he’d grab green Value Line binders from a nearby desk and pore through data on publicly traded companies.
The Pew study pored over residential fire deaths across New York City in 2012-24 and found that the fatality rate in single-stair buildings was both low and equal to other residential structures.
From Los Angeles Times
"England's batting will have to be pored over and looked at."
From Barron's
Using its pores for filtration, the stationary sponge creates its own currents to siphon its prey—as it must, if it is to feed and remain motionless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
