trawl

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

French police only discovered this after conducting a trawl for Barella's name following his arrest last week.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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

Mom took off work early so we could trawl through vintage-clothing stores.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

It trawls through and says, here’s all the things that look a little out of the norm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

But that number could rise as it trawls through documents handed over by AOG following a court order.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2023

“As AI trawls the ocean of open source, there will be even greater value in landing, with a well-cast fly, the secrets that lie beyond the reach of its nets,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

“As AI trawls the ocean of open source, there will be even greater value in landing, with a well-cast fly, the secrets that lie beyond the reach of its nets.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Over and over Marie-Laure trawls her fingers through the suds, as though trying to gauge their weight.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

White and Wilkoff trawled through about 1,500 new cryptocurrencies launched during the mania of 2017-18.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Metropolitan Police officers trawled through thousands of messages on encrypted communication service EncroChat.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

The varied spread of seafood in the trilobite’s guts led the scientists to conclude that B. incola was an opportunistic scavenger that trawled the seafloor for carcasses and anything slow enough for it to catch.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023

He trawled through message boards on sites like Facebook late at night, when it was daytime in America.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

He trawled for jobs on the Chicago Tribune site, on computer mailing lists and on geek employment agency websites.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Joey Lush secured second place in the competition after trawling through Pinterest for outfit inspiration and "grabbing a tote bag from the fresher's fair".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Global pharmaceutical companies are now trawling for promising drugs from labs in biotech centers such as Shanghai and Suzhou.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

If you’re no longer a teenager but still don’t want to spend your whole night trawling Instagram, my Slate colleagues suggest:

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

While this is by far the largest whale graveyard yet found, fossils found during trawling suggest there could be others off South Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Crozet islands, said the study.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall