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View definitions for trawl

trawl

verb as in fish

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Metropolitan Police officers trawled through thousands of messages on encrypted communication service EncroChat.

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The officers spend much of their days trawling through the millions of digitised documents which will make up much of the evidence in the cases.

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Even if enough countries sign there are concerns from environmentalists, including Sir David Attenborough, that there is nothing explicit in the Treaty to ban bottom trawling in these MPAs.

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The announcement comes as a UN Ocean Conference begins on Monday in France, and amid warnings from Sir David Attenborough that bottom trawling is destroying areas of the seabed and marine life.

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Determined to avoid baggage fees for his holiday to Pisa, Benjamin Till trawled several different shops armed with a tape measure in search of the right suitcase.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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