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pore

[pawr, pohr] / pɔr, poʊr /
NOUN
small aperture in skin
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Upstairs, children pore over schoolbooks, mothers prepare lunch and television sets flicker in cramped living rooms, all against the constant background noise of shredders whining and baling presses pounding below.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Their findings, published in Science Advances, suggest that the apparent chemical reactivity of nanoconfined water depends strongly on factors such as density, pore size, wall flexibility, and surface chemistry.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

To get a full picture of Aidan’s health history, a clinician had to pore through paper records, relying on memory to weave disparate facts together.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

Clients expect discretion from advisers as they pore over financial details and craft strategies for pitching the company to investors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

She used dry eyeliner, liquid eyeliner, lip liner, lip conditioner, a frosted highlighter, and a pore minimizer.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Over time, those pores can change shape or degrade, reducing performance and limiting their usefulness in demanding industrial environments.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

After carefully mapping the pores and veins, Navlakha and Zheng found that the leaf structure naturally forms a Voronoi pattern.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

Halting the pressurized flow in mature reservoirs disrupts a delicate subterranean system, allowing water to flood the wellbore and heavy sediments to clog rock pores.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

The company says it seeks to identify promising employees for promotion, encourages career planning alongside performance reviews and pores over internal data to spot potential matches for open positions, even among employees who haven’t applied.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

But it still lingers, on my clothes and in my pores.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Market reaction: Stocks were mixed in premarket trading after investors pored over the CPI report with one eye while keep the other eye on Warsh’s congressional testimony with the other.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Investors are also gearing up for the latest earnings season, which will be pored over for an idea about the outlook for the AI industry.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

That winter, he and Chakrabarti pored over the works of Paul Cret, the French-American architect who designed the Federal Reserve, the Folger Shakespeare Library and other buildings around Washington and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

He pored over her flowery script as she recounted the happenings of her life.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Greenspan started a consulting firm where he delved into economic and manufacturing data, a habit that would become the trademark -- he was known for poring over statistics in his bathtub.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

In poring over director Alan J. Pakula and Goldman’s papers, I’ve probably read that scene dozens of times.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

There will be relief in No 10 that there won't be another parliamentary committee poring over every detail of Sir Keir's decisions and subsequent statements about the Lord Mandelson saga.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

Business leaders who have interacted with the deputy defense secretary describe him as an intense micromanager, poring over minutiae within contracts and supply-chain statistics to look for potential savings or bottlenecks.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Mother Marie said that Elijah spent hours poring through the Bible, with tears shining in his eyes.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey



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