Both forms are common, but they are used differently. Pour into usually names the destination, while pour in often describes movement inward without naming a container directly.
Use pour into before a container, place, or area that receives something. Use pour in when the focus is simply inward movement or when the location is already clear.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use pour into when you mention the thing or place receiving the liquid, people, money, or energy.
Use pour in when the destination is understood or less important.
Pour in can also take a place after it, especially with people, traffic, or information entering somewhere.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Into normally needs a named destination.
✕ Rain poured into all night. ✓ Rain poured in all night.Into expresses movement toward a destination; in can describe location or inward movement.
✕ She poured the juice in the glass. ✓ She poured the juice into the glass.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Sometimes. Both can describe movement inward, but pour into more clearly names the destination.
Yes. We often say people poured in or poured into a place.
Yes. For example, money poured into the project or energy poured into the campaign.
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