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What does pore over mean?

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  1. to examine something (especially written material) carefully and attentively
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Like ancient sages, the pundits pore over the details of Gordon Brown's speech and the related Budget documents as if they were holy texts.
Manuel arrives at work and starts to pore over the pile of paper that awaits him.
I suspect that political scientists will continue to pore over this question for some time, and that the answers will be multiple.
Like the ancient Greeks we too pore over these entrails to read the messages from the edge of the universe.
For hours, they pore over the books, consult each other in hushed Gujarati, then write things on the forms, filling them up and starting on new ones.
As part of the new searches, immigration officers will pore over documents, looking for forgeries of British and other national passports.

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