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"combed over" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone looking through or inspecting something carefully and meticulously, as if using a comb. For example, "The detective combed over the crime scene for any evidence."

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The sections that had already been combed over were color coded according to the findings of the survey team.

The minutest details of the case – who saw what, who was where and at what time – are combed over again and again.

After preliminary sorting at Pier 96, for example, many of San Francisco's salvaged materials are loaded straight into containers bound for China, where they will be combed over much more thoroughly before being recycled.The biggest American exporter by volume is a firm called American Chung Nam.

So what you're hearing at the end has really been combed over by both of us.

Once the hair is combed over, take a bit of hair close to your ear and twist it up towards your head.

He has pale-blue eyes and wispy brown hair, lightly combed over.

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His hairstyle -- combing over, swooping forwards, swooshing around, and somehow sticking forcibly to the sides -- is a figure of fun.

There are "wannabe," "aerobicist," "body-piercing," "comb-over," "lipectomy," "body mass index," "orthorexia," "Botox," "Viagra" and "Prozac".

Christie replies that unlike a businessman, a politician just can't comb-over their mistakes.

And they all seem to be combing over the same group of names.

At a recent editorial meeting, the staff shared stories about the strangers who had been combing over their work.

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