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A volunteer army of moms has been poring through records from the 1800s in an attempt to prove Clarence Thomas wrong.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

The boy has been poring over Ranger Rick magazine, she said, and can now “go toe to toe with anyone on orangutan knowledge.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020

Mr. Dominguez has been poring over the tax-reform package that outgoing Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima handed him recently to work out a smooth transition of power.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2016

Mr. Obama has been poring through a thick binder of information on potential candidates, the White House has said, but officials have refused to identify the names inside.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2016

We suspect the editor to be M. D'Israeli, who has been poring over the records and fingering the dust of the Royal "martyr" for many years past.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various