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[trawl] / trɔl /


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They trawl the American Facebook groups where gun owners, Nascar fans and the potentially aggrieved gather, sending out friend requests then waiting for someone to answer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 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

Authorities can then trawl through phones and inboxes for correspondence or anything else.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

“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

Mom took off work early so we could trawl through vintage-clothing stores.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

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

To firm up the link, epidemiologists trawled 20 years of medical records for more than 10 million U.S. military recruits and analyzed some of their stored blood samples.

From Science Magazine Dec. 14, 2022

He's also trawled through the hours of mission voice recordings, to pick up any observational details at the time the pictures were taken.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2022

In better times, fishing vessels trawled the river, but now there was little to catch, and what could be caught was better left uneaten.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

The ongoing trawling of the best part of 1,500 pages has mileage in it yet and we will continue to read through those documents.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

Lancaster University researcher Francesca Jackson has been trawling through the archives to see the impact of such state visits.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

Sadat, who herself has been living in Germany since Taliban authorities retook power in 2021, said that trawling through locations outside Afghanistan was something she had been used to for a long time.

From Barron's Feb. 15, 2026

They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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