trawl
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They trawl the American Facebook groups where gun owners, Nascar fans and the potentially aggrieved gather, sending out friend requests then waiting for someone to answer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
Some have even ditched fishing altogether because it is more profitable to sell the plastic waste they trawl out of the river, the world's second-most powerful watercourse after the Amazon.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Authorities can then trawl through phones and inboxes for correspondence or anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Detectives will also have done their own trawl of the three million documents in the Epstein files, and they will have asked for unredacted copies from the FBI or the US Department of Justice.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Mom took off work early so we could trawl through vintage-clothing stores.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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