noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a police dragnet
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And intelligence sources last night denied early reports that one van had slipped through their dragnet .
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But billions of dollars seem to have eluded the financial dragnet .
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More than three hundred teenage MexicanAmericans were arrested in the ensuing police dragnet .
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Police were still searching, however, for 19 people who slipped the first dragnet .
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Soon the first tracksuited figures stumbled from the trees into the waiting dragnet .
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The method of fishing employed was to secure one end of the dragnet on the shore and the other on the boat.