trawl
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Authorities can then trawl through phones and inboxes for correspondence or anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
From that list of 40 or 50 people, it was easy to find and trawl their social media.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 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
The committee cast a wide net, using a programming tool to trawl more than 32,000 project descriptions for 699 keywords and phrases that they identified as linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025
Mom took off work early so we could trawl through vintage-clothing stores.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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