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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The two investigators spent six months poring over thousands of documents in case files for crimes that were never solved.
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Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Following a first season that catapulted Yellowjackets and its cast into the zeitgeist — spawning endless Reddit threads where viewers pore over the mystery survival saga — all eyes were on season two, which received some mixed reviews.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
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.
—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
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Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Following a first season that catapulted Yellowjackets and its cast into the zeitgeist — spawning endless Reddit threads where viewers pore over the mystery survival saga — all eyes were on season two, which received some mixed reviews.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
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.
—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
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“Pore over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pore%20over. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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