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The word "combed" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to describe the action of arranging or untangling hair or fibers.
Example: "She combed her hair before the big event."
Alternatives: "Styled" or "Brushed."
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They combed through Michelle Obama's and Laura Bush's pasts too.
And as the last artificial turf pellet is combed out of DeAndre Yedlin's hair there, that will be that for the regular season, and we can all draw breath before the playoffs.
Specialist officers carried out fingertip searches at a flat north-west of the city on Wednesday, while a second team of detectives, aided by a helicopter crew, combed the nearby park where her handbag had been discovered.
"Officers combed the streets while colleagues knocked on every door in the neighbourhood.
Investigators combed through boxes of evidence that had not previously been seen.
Yet bizarrely, perhaps, a new study by the government of President Álvaro Uribe claims that there may be just 125 hostages still being held for ransom, be that pecuniary or political.Officials from Fondelibertad, the government's anti-kidnap agency, have combed through the cases of the 3,307 kidnaps since 1996 that are officially still unresolved.
They forced open filing cabinets and combed computer files, before leaving empty-handed.
This down is combed out each spring, and once unwanted long hairs, grease, dirt and dried faeces are separated out, each goat produces maybe three or four ounces of cashmere.
Web-users combed through previous posts, looking for prognostications, and clues about his identity.
Two years ago, for example, it launched "dry shampoo", a powder that works by being combed through hair.
Last month Ritzaus Bureau, the Danish national news agency, combed through his diary and found that he had spent almost as many days abroad as at home so far this year: 53 in Denmark and 47 on foreign trips.His political focus has also taken a decidedly internationalist tinge.
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