trawling

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And don’t leave stuff lying around on ftp sites - you never know who is trawling them.

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A laborious search.

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noun

A laborious search.

noun

A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trawling.

noun

A laborious search.

noun

A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.

Example sentences

And don’t leave stuff lying around on ftp sites - you never know who is trawling them.

This whole witch hunt by the US is hypocritical, given that the NSA is trawling the whole worlds commucations looking for commercial and economic inteligence, to be fed to US companies.

What puzzles me is why you're trawling through all these examples trying to show that scientists have never really been wrong about anything.

Because trawling your social media profiles is the only way to find out the relevant bits of information to base such a decision on?

There is conclusive evidence of a conspiracy: And don’t leave stuff lying around on ftp sites – you never know who is trawling them.

I have to wonder if someone started trawling the GP's post history looking to discredit him/her.

But it all comes down to a cold, miserable day in Geneva and an executive trawling LinkedIn for suitable hires for his team downunder.

I've done a lot of interviews and basically none of them required us trawling twitter.

I remember years back trawling through multiple expertsexchange pages to solve some coding issues..

After discovering PG's essays, I spent a couple of weeks trawling through them.

There's too much noise, not enough signal, and I don't have the time or will to get pissed off while trawling through stuff.

There will be plenty of research on this, I suggest trawling PubMed.

Quote examples

Get it wedged deeply into your head "I've spent the last 3 hours trawling HN for content, I am a piece of shit." And maybe you'll learn to have some respect for your time.

"Control Panel" is clearly a tool that manipulates some API, as are all the snap-ins, but because I can't see the source (I recently had to fix a WinCE issue by trawling the source to find the right registry key.

It seems to be one of the biggest prison in the country, Bergen can house 258 inmates but it's not clear that there are bigger prisons, trawling through the official listing[0] and looking for "insette" (inducted/inmates) and "plasser" (places/seats) most prisons units are in the high 60s, with very few approaching 200.