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The volunteer, Jessica Jacobs Dirschel, had pored through the police file and court record and concluded the other man, Jofama Coleman, was innocent.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

He wrote in an email to his sister that he had pored through six books, called old friends and watched a lot of sports.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2023

For over two years since 2019, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and his team had pored over Mr Trump's finances in search of possible crimes.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022

It turned out that he had pored over its floor plan online while researching his early novel “Supernova Era,” which was published in 2003 and will appear in English later this year.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2019

Ged had pored over many charts and maps in the Tower of the Master Namer on Roke, but those had been mostly of the Archipelago and the inner seas.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin