dragnet
Example Sentences
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Plus, home security cameras enter their dragnet era and a Stanford student’s matchmaking algorithm takes over campus.
In our quest to catch the neighborhood porch pirate, we’ve inadvertently built a dragnet that catches much more.
“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
Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city.
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To many Americans, the viral image of a child swept up in an enforcement dragnet is horrifying.
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