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adjective

as in scraped

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verb

past tense of scour
as in searched
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something the police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic

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Recent Examples of scoured
Adjective
The three scoured data collected by the Chandra space telescope between 1999 and 2017 and painstakingly filtered out any random artifacts and other junk. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026 Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire. — Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
For this story, Jessie scoured Nordstrom for a variety of ways to wear chocolate brown suede, including some more affordable options and splurge-worthy investments. — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2026 Workers restored the oak floors and the mahogany central staircase and paneling, while employees scoured Europe for antique decorations and furniture. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 Williams and her team scoured sites like 1stDibs to find the kinds of tasteful pieces that would live with the wealthy Crawford family but that also conveyed the subtly spooky effect that’s a hallmark of the film. — Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026 Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence to give to California health and food safety investigators. — CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 The public got the message, with some parents keeping their children indoors while police and herpetologists scoured that backyard for the snake. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Gholamreza Rahmani, a Tehran welder, and his wife recently scoured several pharmacies over two days hoping to fill prescriptions for four medicines for their 12-year-old daughter, who was having stomach troubles. — ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 But a research team at the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center scoured CDC data from 1999 and 2020 and found the death rate is rising among adults 18 – 64. — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 28 Sep. 2026 The driver was unconscious; Boyd’s stepfather and his crew scoured the site desperately. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
  1. sanded
  2. searched
  3. found
  4. combed
Adjective
  • Or scrape out the grout and regrout it with a sanded grout mixture.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of sanded
Verb
  • Officers detained Hoang and searched the residence, finding two people with stab wounds.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Police manhunt Dozens of Sacramento police officers, along with other local law enforcement agencies, searched the area for the suspect.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of searched
Verb
  • Randsburg, which was once a booming California Gold Rush town founded in 1895, has seen most of its residents leave over the years.
    — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • At the time, Truell hadn’t founded a company; but three years later, the venture capitalist persuaded her firm, BoxGroup, to invest in the Gen Z engineering savant’s nascent business.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of found
Verb
  • In designing the collection, Zankov combed Banana Republic’s archives and selected pieces to reinterpret with his own signature elements including unexpected color and patchwork construction.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Lojo and a colleague combed through some corridors, looking for clients who might have nestled in remote areas.
    — Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of combed

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“Scoured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoured. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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