A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
Synonyms
Examples for "dragnet"
Examples for "dragnet"
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Acton grew afraid that WhatsApp would turn into a mass surveillance dragnet.
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A wider dragnet is required, with more testing and rigorous contact tracing.
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So the problem with us is how to get out the dragnet.
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The State Police have spread a dragnet, but it doesn't look hopeful.
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Some of those caught in the dragnet are left scratching their heads.
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For some reason they occasionally get caught on a trawl net.
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Large groups of fish found the escape route in the trawl net faster than small groups, suggesting they learnt from each other, he said.
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Ms Barry said there had been no verified deaths of Maui's dolphins in set nets or trawl nets since 2002.
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The WWF commissioned a survey of five hundred people and found 83 percent support a ban on set and trawl nets.
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The plan does not set a target, called for by conservation groups, to reduce the number of sea lions killed in trawling nets.
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The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl.
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The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
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A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects.
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By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage.
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I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer.
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That dwarfed the 58 NIWA estimated died in trawl or set nets.
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The John Steel Singers Our latest find from another trawl Down Under.
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By-the-bye, how do you pass the time away before hauling the trawl?'
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And so the great annual trawl for young talent has begun yet again.
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If you can trawl 100 years of papers in five seconds, why not?
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A trawl through the week's papers does turn up a few possible sightings.
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A trawl two weeks ago had set the figure at 97.
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Nothing for him there, then; he decided to trawl the inns and workshops.
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Survey of London, by John Stow A compendious street-by-street trawl through Elizabethan London.
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The reporting involved a trawl of comments on Mumsnet and Twitter.
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The Exodus, fishing for whitefish, had made its fourth trawl of the day.
