dragnet

Example Sentences

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Home security cameras have entered a dragnet era, writes Nicole Nguyen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“I am not white, as you can see,” she told the judge, explaining that her own family was at risk of being swept up in the same dragnet she was being forced to defend.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

Asylum-seekers, refugees, and even Abrego Garcia, who had been issued a protection known as withholding of removal specifically prohibiting his being sent to El Salvador, have been swept up in the dragnet.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025

It’s hard for them to imagine how a dragnet of that size could pause to consider the merits of individual cases.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

The resulting “interviews” of passengers in these dragnet operations usually culminate in a request for “consent” to search the passenger’s luggage.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander