trawl
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Authorities can then trawl through phones and inboxes for correspondence or anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
And it remains unknown what might still emerge from the trawl of information surrounding Epstein.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025
“It seems remarkable that the Thai government permitted its fishing fleet to commence trawl fishing,” the organization said in its final report.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
The committee cast a wide net, using a programming tool to trawl more than 32,000 project descriptions for 699 keywords and phrases that they identified as linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025
But the next month, before most of the boxes had even been opened, NSA agents went to the Marshall Library to trawl through the Friedmans’ papers.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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