pore over
phrasal verb
pored over; poring over; pores over
: to read or study (something) very carefully
He pored over the map for hours.
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So military service members and civilians have evaluated social media posts by hand, working late into the night and on weekends to pore over their unit's social media pages, cataloging and deleting references going back years.
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arkansasonline.com, 23 Mar. 2025
For two-and-a-half years, curators from Cinémathèque Française and the Design Museum in London pored over a treasure trove of items locked away in Anderson’s storage facility in Kent, England to create the first museum exhibition of his work.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
So Tyler Coale, a phytoplankton biologist at UC Santa Cruz, pored over the inner workings of both by analyzing their proteins.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
The group, which calls itself Sedition Hunters, has pored over videos and photographs of the mob and has aided the F.B.I. in its investigation into the attack.
—Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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arkansasonline.com, 23 Mar. 2025
For two-and-a-half years, curators from Cinémathèque Française and the Design Museum in London pored over a treasure trove of items locked away in Anderson’s storage facility in Kent, England to create the first museum exhibition of his work.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
So Tyler Coale, a phytoplankton biologist at UC Santa Cruz, pored over the inner workings of both by analyzing their proteins.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
The group, which calls itself Sedition Hunters, has pored over videos and photographs of the mob and has aided the F.B.I. in its investigation into the attack.
—Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pore over
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“Pore over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pore%20over. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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