trawl
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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
Researchers have previously used AI to trawl through thousands of known chemicals in an attempt to identify ones with potential to become new antibiotics.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025
“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
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
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