Nathan Myhrvold

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

American Businessman

Michael Moschen

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

American Entertainer

Kyle Hill

It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.

American Author

Anna Wintour

I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.

English Editor

Sigmund Freud

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Austrian Psychologist

Howard Bloom

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Yvette Nicole Brown

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

American Actress

James Clapper

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

American Public Servant

Lesley Manville

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

English Actress

John King

I always joke that a makeup-free day is good for the pores.

American Journalist

Picture small openings on surfaces to understand 'pore' as a noun.

Visual Imagery

'Pore' can refer to any tiny opening, not only on human skin.

Not Just Skin

'Pore' conveys breathability in materials like fabric.

Breathability

Use 'pore over' when intense focus or deep attention is needed.

Concentration Required

'Pore over' suggests spending a lot of time on the activity.

Long Durations

'Pore over' is more intense than just reading or glancing.

Intensity Over Casualty

 when they were talking to colleagues at the watercooler And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image -- you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample,

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 largest millipede species in the world they can grow up to around 12 inches long and live between five to seven years in the wild and they have around three to four hundred legs with four per body segment and they don't breathe through lungs like you and I instead they have these tiny pore like

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 I want to make sure you can read the skin as pores and oils like we read our own skin it's really important that I'm using the animals facial skin back over its face just transformed I want to leave as much animal miss on the face using all the patterns and

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 a process that separates water's ingredients by size. A membrane with pores bigger than water particles, but smaller than salt particles, only lets fresh water pass through, transforming what was once undrinkable into a life saver.

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 every pore the moisture you see the depth in the iris of his eye these photographs can be blown up to be the size of a wall and lose virtually nothing with them another characteristic is that there's no depth of field so his

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 already bad enough are you ready kinda to help so these are gonna be the little canvases that we uh get their uh a little pores on i'm thinking fifty dollars for report

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 microbes might get inside the egg through its pores and consume the developing embryo within but the eggs have a special protection it's known as sam sam

Pore

A tiny hole in a surface, often your skin, that lets things such as liquids pass through.

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To look at or read something very carefully for a long time.

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