trawling

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Trawling for timely insights on platforms like TikTok, where trends now live and die in a matter of days, takes time and resources that most marketing departments don’t have in-house.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Trawling the seafloor for fish typically involves the use of metal “doors” that can each weigh over 11,000 pounds, used to navigate and hold weighted nets at the intended location—which can span over 600 feet.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024

Trawling allowed the fishing industry to exploit places that had earlier been unreachable.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2021

Trawling through years of correspondence, they unearthed emails from Le Mesurier to the finance department in the summer of 2018, soon after he had returned from the rescue mission.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2021

Trawling through gigabytes of data, he found hundreds of references to fairies from nearly every country in the world.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer