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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Recently, Zuckerberg decided to abandon a fact-checking strategy used to monitor the Facebook app where a content team pored over posts and made sure no one was spreading hate speech or causing a stir with misinformation. —

John Brandon, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 My read is that Corbet is pointedly leading the viewer to pore over the specifics of Tóth’s fate: Although the director’s disgust for the hollowness of the institution that Tóth tries, and ultimately fails, to navigate is thuddingly clear, what happens next to the character is more oblique. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025 Not that that’s stopped online fans from poring over every scrap of information. —

Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025 Aside from poring over books, Dyas and Larrain trekked through Paris visiting Callas’ favorite restaurants and theaters, all of which Dyas would have to build. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for pore over