dragnet

Example Sentences

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Home security cameras have entered a dragnet era, writes Nicole Nguyen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

To many Americans, the viral image of a child swept up in an enforcement dragnet is horrifying.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

Asylum-seekers, refugees, and even Abrego Garcia, who had been issued a protection known as withholding of removal specifically prohibiting his being sent to El Salvador, have been swept up in the dragnet.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025

Muñoz feared her husband would get caught in the dragnet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

The resulting “interviews” of passengers in these dragnet operations usually culminate in a request for “consent” to search the passenger’s luggage.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander