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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trawl .
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Examples
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To plumb its mysteries, the scientists employ high-tech devices, including remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and submarines, as well as more traditional equipment, such as trawls, cores and dredges that need several miles of cable to reach the seabed.
Livescience.com 2009
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To find alternatives, Asher trawls parental leave schemes across the developed world, casting her net far wider than the usual – still laudable – Scandinavia, and pulling in the best elements.
Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher – review 2011
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Friday night BBC4, traditional home of the rewarding muso doc, fabulous archive trawls and generally celebrating the art of making a terrific noise, is the perfect place for this type of thing.
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But if epigenetic markers were stable over many generations, which they probably are not, they would show up in the trawls anyway.
The Failed Promise of Genomics Matt Ridley 2010
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Glued to TV, Twitter and Facebook during a debate or candidate appearance, the St. Cloud, Minn., designer trawls for "sticky" phrases or images.
Candidates Supply the Quips, the Trinkets Follow Immediately Elizabeth Williamson 2011
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Tehran alleges time-wasting as curator trawls through thousands of cuneiform clay fragments for Cyrus the Great's legacy
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spent $5 million for 22 boats and the accompanying trawls, nets and hauling vehicles.
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Ultimately, the establishment feeds off the avant garde: street fashions inspire luxury brands, just as the advertising industry trawls the art world for ideas.
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Of the 671 fish Algalita MRF collected in their night trawls, 35% had plastic particles in their stomachs.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011
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A History studemts in the future may well come across this article as s/he trawls the digital archives.
UK debt misery revealed: tower block where living in the red is a way of life 2011
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