trawl

Some of the scenes the author dredges up from his deep trawl through Stasi archives are bizarre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

For those new to the low tide trawl, they are few and far between to begin with.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

After years of disappointment, a random eBay trawl turned up a surprise offer of the long-lost chocolate mints, with a notice for mint vintage items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Some have even ditched fishing altogether because it is more profitable to sell the plastic waste they trawl out of the river, the world's second-most powerful watercourse after the Amazon.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Mom took off work early so we could trawl through vintage-clothing stores.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

It trawls through and says, here’s all the things that look a little out of the norm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

But that number could rise as it trawls through documents handed over by AOG following a court order.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2023

“As AI trawls the ocean of open source, there will be even greater value in landing, with a well-cast fly, the secrets that lie beyond the reach of its nets,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

“As AI trawls the ocean of open source, there will be even greater value in landing, with a well-cast fly, the secrets that lie beyond the reach of its nets.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Over and over Marie-Laure trawls her fingers through the suds, as though trying to gauge their weight.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Prince Andrew also faces pressure from inquiries in the US into Epstein's contacts with influential people, with more documents being trawled.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

The varied spread of seafood in the trilobite’s guts led the scientists to conclude that B. incola was an opportunistic scavenger that trawled the seafloor for carcasses and anything slow enough for it to catch.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023

Filmmakers trawled archived material of the younger Ford before matching it to new footage, creating the illusion of Indiana Jones in 1944.

From BBC ● May 16, 2023

He trawled through message boards on sites like Facebook late at night, when it was daytime in America.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

He trawled for jobs on the Chicago Tribune site, on computer mailing lists and on geek employment agency websites.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Global pharmaceutical companies are now trawling for promising drugs from labs in biotech centers such as Shanghai and Suzhou.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

If you’re no longer a teenager but still don’t want to spend your whole night trawling Instagram, my Slate colleagues suggest:

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Investors trawling for value stocks have also boosted shares of energy and materials names.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

And the likes of Zudio and Max have brought about the "trendification" of affordable fashion for the first time, appealing to Gen-Z and young millennial buyers, by trawling the latest fads in Paris and Milan.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

I was trawling through every detail in my mind, every possible misstep, until I caught myself.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson