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Oceanside detectives were scouring areas like that knowing that’s kind of what she is known to frequent. – Jennifer Atenza	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
(Authorities) probably have some of their best people in the nation out there looking for him and they haven't found no sign of him, the 25,000 acres, it sounds big, but when you've got that many people scouring the area it's really not. – Jason Marsteiner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If that was a little White girl out there or a White woman, I'm sure they would have had helicopters, airplanes and dogs and searches -- a lot of manpower out there -- scouring where that person was lost, none of that has happened for Nona Blouin. – Nona Blouin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If I had a pull on 'One of These Nights,' on the first high note on 'One of These Nights,' that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley's eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level. – Don Felder	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
We are literally scouring the globe for medical supplies. – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That makes no sense whatsoever, the FBI should have secured that location and should be scouring it for evidence. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A couple of years ago I was just washing the dishes and I seen the sponges with the scouring pads, and I just thought it’d be quite interesting to try one of them, ever since that I’ve been addicted to eating them. I just have to soak them in (dishwashing liquid) and then chew on them. I always have to make sure I have sponges in the house. – Emma Thompson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They have hundreds of people scouring the startup universe in China, India, the United States. – Gary Rieschel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude. – Andrea Dworkin	added by anonymous 9 years ago

Oceanside detectives were scouring areas like that knowing that’s kind of what she is known to frequent.

– Jennifer Atenza

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

(Authorities) probably have some of their best people in the nation out there looking for him and they haven't found no sign of him, the 25,000 acres, it sounds big, but when you've got that many people scouring the area it's really not.

– Jason Marsteiner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If that was a little White girl out there or a White woman, I'm sure they would have had helicopters, airplanes and dogs and searches -- a lot of manpower out there -- scouring where that person was lost, none of that has happened for Nona Blouin.

– Nona Blouin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I had a pull on 'One of These Nights,' on the first high note on 'One of These Nights,' that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley's eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level.

– Don Felder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We are literally scouring the globe for medical supplies.

– New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That makes no sense whatsoever, the FBI should have secured that location and should be scouring it for evidence.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A couple of years ago I was just washing the dishes and I seen the sponges with the scouring pads, and I just thought it’d be quite interesting to try one of them, ever since that I’ve been addicted to eating them. I just have to soak them in (dishwashing liquid) and then chew on them. I always have to make sure I have sponges in the house.

– Emma Thompson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They have hundreds of people scouring the startup universe in China, India, the United States.

– Gary Rieschel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

– Andrea Dworkin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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