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[trawl] / trɔl /


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Andy Burnham has said he has asked for a "manual trawl" of records relating to his previous contact with Manchester City football club.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In south Brooklyn, shoppers hoping to get a slice of the city's transit service waited for hours to trawl through an open-air market organized by city authorities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 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

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

Known as an abyssal species, it slothfully trawls the shadows like some mournful Lovecraftian being, possessing an especially sluggish metabolism, which isn’t surprising considering its size.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

White and Wilkoff trawled through about 1,500 new cryptocurrencies launched during the mania of 2017-18.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

Global pharmaceutical companies are now trawling for promising drugs from labs in biotech centers such as Shanghai and Suzhou.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

If you’re no longer a teenager but still don’t want to spend your whole night trawling Instagram, my Slate colleagues suggest:

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

They are likely to be actively trawling an alternative list, set to be headed by former Open champion Stewart Cink.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 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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