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trawling



NOUN
fishing
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Investors trawling for value stocks have also boosted shares of energy and materials names.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

Sadat, who herself has been living in Germany since Taliban authorities retook power in 2021, said that trawling through locations outside Afghanistan was something she had been used to for a long time.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

Dani says there can also be a benefit for players who do enjoy the old-fashioned method of trawling stats and spreadsheets to optimise their teams.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 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




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