pore
verb (used without object)
to read or study with steady attention or application.
has pored
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present perfectof pore (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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She has pored over local texts from the 16th and 17th centuries.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
Often working at home, she has pored over satellite data to spot decreases in vegetation greenness during drought, a telltale sign of die-off caused by declining aquifer levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
He has pored over many of the photographs of the 4,000 bodies recovered so far.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
"It intensifies that discourse and makes it explicitly racial," said Casey Kelly, a communications professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who for years has pored over transcripts of Trump's speeches.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2022
How dear to a forlorn survivor the book over whose pages he has pored with one departed!
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
