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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

Detectives will also have done their own trawl of the three million documents in the Epstein files, and they will have asked for unredacted copies from the FBI or the US Department of Justice.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

You do not have to trawl through advanced statistics to work out Rangers have had their goalkeeper Jack Butland and some terrible profligacy from their opponents to thank in their two ties so far.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

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

Metropolitan Police officers trawled through thousands of messages on encrypted communication service EncroChat.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

Determined to avoid baggage fees for his holiday to Pisa, Benjamin Till trawled several different shops armed with a tape measure in search of the right suitcase.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

Dinghies, fishing boats, and other nauka passed in the water, and shrimp fishermen trawled blue nets along the shore.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

"Where the government makes an announcement and you have to spend days trawling websites to try to find out what they mean," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

Like many Lebou, Tall's father is a diver, plunging for fish which have drastically disappeared from Senegal's coast due to industrial trawling.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

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

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson