dragnet

Example Sentences

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Plus, home security cameras enter their dragnet era and a Stanford student’s matchmaking algorithm takes over campus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 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

A statewide dragnet for organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, ensued, followed by hundreds of arrests.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024

He’d had a conversation with Guitar some time ago about the dragnet.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison