trawl

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Authorities can then trawl through phones and inboxes for correspondence or anything else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

"You can ask ChatGPT: 'Show me the best Black Friday deals for a 10-year-old who loves the movie Wicked.' You don't need to trawl through different sites, which can be time-consuming and overwhelming."

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

“It seems remarkable that the Thai government permitted its fishing fleet to commence trawl fishing,” the organization said in its final report.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

The committee cast a wide net, using a programming tool to trawl more than 32,000 project descriptions for 699 keywords and phrases that they identified as linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

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

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman