pore
verb (used without object)
to read or study with steady attention or application.
have pored
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present perfectof pore.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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Since then, scientists have pored over those and other images for clues to the moon's mysterious liquid environment.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
Thousands of oceanographers, aeronautical engineers and amateur sleuths have pored over the fragmentary data from the flight, trying to calculate where it ended its journey.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
If you’re among those who have pored over the many documentaries, news features and dramatizations that revolve around Kennedy’s slaughter, you may have heard from some these people before.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2023
They have pored over SAG-AFTRA’s residuals structure, which determines an actor’s residuals payout from several factors, such as the number of subscribers of the streamer airing the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
I have pored over it so much, that I have got it by heart.
From Isaac T. Hopper by Lydia Maria Francis Child
