dragnet

Example Sentences

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Still, she has legal bills to pay and has grown more frustrated at being ensnared by the state’s Medicaid dragnet.

From Seattle Times

A cancer patient and mother of two, she spoke to the BBC in August 2021 after her son was jailed in a dragnet of arrests following nationwide anti-government demonstrations the month before.

From BBC

“The vast expansion of the child protection dragnet ensnared tens of thousands of innocent parents, disproportionately affecting families of color living in poverty,” NBC News and ProPublica reported.

From Washington Post

Ms. Skoryk-Shkarivska said Mr. Fedoruk doesn’t like to talk about the time he spent evading the Russian dragnet that had been set up to detain him.

From Washington Times

One list begat another as Russia expanded its dragnet to ever-wider swaths of Ukrainian society, incorporating additional names from collaborators and seized government records and torturing captives into giving up other people.

From Seattle Times