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trawl

[trawl] / trɔl /


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Every known specimen was brought up by accident, caught in trawl nets or dredges working the seafloor between about 50 and 125 meters down.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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

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

From that list of 40 or 50 people, it was easy to find and trawl their social media.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

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

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

“I visited libraries, I scoured the web and trawled through antiques markets looking for inspiration.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nurgül waited as the rescue teams trawled through the ruins of the Ezgi Building.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 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 for jobs on the Chicago Tribune site, on computer mailing lists and on geek employment agency websites.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

Hours of trawling through the literature seemed to confirm that no-one else had known what this little seaweed that lived on maerl was either.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

While this is by far the largest whale graveyard yet found, fossils found during trawling suggest there could be others off South Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Crozet islands, said the study.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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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