Synonyms for dragnet
ˈdrægˌnɛtdrag·net

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1. dragnetnoun

   a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)

   "caught in the police dragnet"

   Synonyms:
   trawl net, trawl

2. trawl, dragnet, trawl netnoun

   a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

   Synonyms:
   setline, spiller, trawl, trawl line, trawl net, trotline

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1. Chris Rufo:

   Next step: we need to turn the screw on Attorney General Garland, who secretly colluded with outside groups to mobilize the FBI against political opponents and whose family benefits financially from CRT in schools, we must hammer him every day until he calls off the FBI dragnet.

2. Matt Cagle:

   This proposal invites dragnet surveillance that history shows will disproportionately harm immigrants, communities of color, and activists, and it invites profit-seeking firms to violate Facebook and Twitter rules designed to keep users safe, treating social media users like suspects won't make us more safe, but it will make us less free.

3. James Scot:

   The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

4. James Scott:

   You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   Another promise cruelly broken by President Trump, this one with heartbreaking consequences for brave young DREAMers across the nation, instead of honoring the protections of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative, President Trump has unleashed an indiscriminate deportation dragnet of appalling inhumanity.