Combing in a sentence as a noun

I'd think wed want to minimize how often the FBI is combing through data.

They are likely combing access logs, etc. Maybe they will reinstate it later after a review.

Is Google/Facebook combing the cultures of the world to pick out what they believe?I do sysadmin work.

Do we really need people combing through every page of C2 and submitting every page?

These days, there are social justice warriors combing your twitter feed looking for a way to get you fired if you "offend" someone.

I'm shocked we have someone actively combing to discover assets the government might be able to seize in court.

I'm busy combing through /usr/bin for other trivial utilities that I can turn into a web site for residual income.

This is Techcrunch, all they're doing is combing back through his public postings to find something they can inappropriately hype as significant.

More likely too occupied combing the internet to find another company to sue for copyright infringement.

The whole practice of combing through old documents searching for confused accounts of astronomical phenomena is fascinating to me. I wonder if there is any chance of crowd-sourcing that kind of searching.

I have a morbid fascination with improving my workflow and programming environment, so I absolutely adore combing through other developer's fabfiles.

The fact that the author couldn't actually come up with any statistics implying that being old is actually a bad thing, despite combing the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census for data, seems to be a good indicator that there's nothing to worry about.

I often find myself combing the mailing lists of key projects like the Linux kernel to figure out why things happened the way they did, and Google+ comments are not searchable in the same way; and even if they were, I am having a difficult time believing that the content will not just end up gone entirely after another ten or twenty years.

Instead,"We are saddened by the accusations that we would ever do such a thing, or sell weaponized exploits.\nIf anyone ever attempted to include malware in a jailbreak, we are confident that the many\nsecurity experts combing through jailbreak software would find it."The explanations about Saurik and piracy in their Chinese pals' app store comes off as similarly evasive.

Combing definitions

noun

the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb"

See also: comb