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After years of disappointment, a random eBay trawl turned up a surprise offer of the long-lost chocolate mints, with a notice for mint vintage items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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

Detectives will also have done their own trawl of the three million documents in the Epstein files, and they will have asked for unredacted copies from the FBI or the US Department of Justice.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

"You can ask ChatGPT: 'Show me the best Black Friday deals for a 10-year-old who loves the movie Wicked.' You don't need to trawl through different sites, which can be time-consuming and overwhelming."

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 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

I have trawled through the footballer's Instagram comments and seen the hate he continues to receive from other people.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024

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

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

In the meantime, police were exploring other avenues, other suspects, hitting dead ends and trawling through mountains of CCTV.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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

It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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