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trawl

verb as in fish

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Bob: We need to be bringing younger strikers through, not trawling clubs for old players having a good season.

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However, he added: "It would clearly have been better if you and your husband had conducted a full trawl through all email correspondence with the estate agency before writing to me yesterday."

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Add to that the evidence of law enforcement trawling an entire party, chilling political activity.

They trawled the streets of Portland, Berkeley and other northwestern cities that were seen as progressive strongholds, bearing weapons, harassing residents and otherwise creating a spectacle of violence and chaos.

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Much of the recent scandal around Prince Andrew has come from the discovery of old emails, including from trawls of Epstein documents in the US.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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