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pore over

verb as in contemplate

verb as in peruse

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Had there not been photographs and memorabilia to pore over, dancing would have been the only sensible option.

It gave me license to pore over raw tape, again and again, to absorb the subtle clues of human behavior.

It is great fun to pore over clues and tunnel into a tree trunk like termites, and I am not apologizing for a guilty pleasure.

It is advice to sift, pore over, and weigh up, with a view to us deciding for ourselves.

But he had no pretty books such as you have now, and had to pore over musty parchments.

Helplessly you pore over them, at stolen moments, as if you expected some miracle would reveal the meaning of those printed signs.

Old Michael Johnson was much better qualified to pore over books, and to talk about them, than to trade in them.

Many a night would she pore over the Latin Grammar, that she might be even one stage before me in the morning.

Your men who pore over treaties and maps and protocols may plan and scheme to their hearts' content; but we can act.

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On this page you'll find 516 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pore over, such as: consider, examine, notice, audit, behold, and eye.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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