pore
Example Sentences
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Reversing the voltage caused the precipitate to dissolve, restoring conductive pathways through the pore.
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
"This enabled selective transport of ions of different effective sizes through the membrane by tuning the ultrasmall pore sizes."
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
When the SpaceX IPO arrives, investors will pore over estimates for its more tangible businesses, such as launch services and Starlink’s space-based broadband product, which has more than 9 million customers External link.
From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026
USC, which received 83,500 applications in the last undergraduate admissions cycle, has dozens of full-time readers who work tens of thousands of hours to pore over grades, essays and other application elements.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026
Whatever it is will appear, even later, in colored plates, in books; like the work of Leonardo da Vinci, whose studies of hands and feet and hair and dead people I pore over.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
