- present participle of trawl.
trawling
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They added that the noise pollution of trawling disrupted the porpoises' ability to hunt and that the MPA had been designated to protect the animal.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
All of Valerie's spare time is spent trawling the internet for clues.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
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 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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