dragnet

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One of the unlucky thousands caught up in the dragnet was a Daily News reporter assigned to cover the ticket blitz; after getting a call from his editor,

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  1. noun A system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminal suspects or other wanted persons.
  2. noun A net for trawling; a trawl.
  3. noun A net for catching small game.

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  • A block back always come the shadow cars, spread out in a wide dragnet, the teams in league with the bait car, ready to slam the rookies flushed out.
  • It is not unlike a man casting into the sea a great dragnet, and when it is full of fish, pulling it up again and taking out fishes, good, bad and indifferent, and throwing the bad and indifferent back again into the sea. —  Margot Asquith, An Autobiography
  • "Why Because some of Kemmler's disciples escaped the White Council's dragnet," Bob said. —  Butcher, Jim - Dead Beat (v1.0) (html).html
  • More than 5,000 cane toads were snagged in the dragnet, according to news reports. —  GreenBiz.com Green Business News
  • This gives the word "dragnet" an especially chilling new meaning. —  t r u t h o u t
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