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trawl
  1. To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
  2. To fish from a slow moving boat.
  3. To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The fishermen set sail early morning to trawl in the open ocean, hoping for a bountiful catch of fresh seafood.”
      “I decided to trawl through countless books at the library, searching for information on ancient civilizations.”
trawling
trawls
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trawl
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  3. Examples:
    1. “During the 1990s, Haruo Ogi of Hokkaido University found a tenfold increase of plastic particles in his trawls off Japan.”
      “Many police trawls did not turn up sufficient evidence to satisfy the burden of proof.”
      “Every year he trawls through the letters and gets visits from people who have fallen on hard circumstances.”
trawled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of trawl
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Our new measures must include better technical standards, including bigger mesh sizes to prevent juvenile fish being trawled up and discarded.”
      “According to the Southeastern Fisheries Association in Tallahassee, Florida, nearly 5,000 shrimpers trawled the Gulf a decade ago.”
      “Katrin built a fire from deadwood, it being illegal to cut living vegetation, while I trawled for bass.”
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