scour
Example Sentences
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He scoured the S&P 1500 Index for stocks at the higher end of sensitivity to economic data and that are at the lower end of debt cost sensitivity.
From Barron's
That is because Asian customers are scouring the world for similar varieties of crude to keep churning out diesel and jet fuel.
Andurand—a prolific social-media user himself—first scoured X to try to find more information about the U.S. position and Iran’s response.
Every Sunday Betsie would scour the papers, British, French, and German as well as our own, since the radio brought in stations from all over Europe, and plan the week’s program of concerts and recitals.
From Literature
But we know what narrator Ramin Karimloo means: The last significant pharaoh continues to occupy the dreams of Egyptologists scouring the dust for traces of his history.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
