scouring

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Scouring the internet for tables, chairs, futons and bookshelves, I quickly found great options.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Scouring hundreds of pages of court testimony, cell phone transcripts and text messages, colleague Nathan Fenno and I reconstructed Tyler Skaggs’ final days, hour by hour.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

Scouring 150 years of ethnographic data, the researchers discovered that women hunt anything from small to large game in the majority of the 1,400 societies studied.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

Scouring the heap, and sobbing inconsolably, is 65-year-old Emel Filik.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2023

“I spent the morning reading The Small Redemptions of Lagos. Scouring it, actually,” he said.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie