rifling

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There was Woodward, a journalistic workhorse who was seemingly born inquisitive, rifling through the papers of his father’s law office when he worked there as a janitor in his youth.

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The officers spent two hours combing the house, rifling through papers and old suitcases before they whisked Ghannouchi away without saying where they were taking him or why he was being detained, she said.

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The officers moved through the rapper’s home, rifling through his suits in a walk-in closet and combing through folders of CDs.

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Rod Bernstein was rifling through the attic of his house in D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood when, from under a floorboard, he pulled out a note.

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Earlier this month, Indian tax officials spent three days rifling through the Delhi and Mumbai offices of the BBC and cloning some employees’ phones.

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