dragnet

IPA: drˈægnɛt

(fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.

Examples of "dragnet" in Sentences

ACLU: FBI used 'dragnet'-style warrantless cell tracking | Privacy Inc.
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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,
And since obviously no police dragnet is 100% effective, there’s a larger pool of potential bombers available who’d rather tap their virgins in this world. levitra Says:
Caught in the dragnet are the handicapped adults who used to line their wheelchairs along a stretch of the boulevard leading to the presidential palace in downtown Dakar.
The first cast of what Crane aptly termed the dragnet had brought in the management and service staff to a man, with a number of the restaurant's habitues, including Sophie Weringrode and her errand-boy, the exquisite Mr. Revel.
EFF sued the government claiming that AT&T and perhaps other telecommunications companies cooperated with it to allow access to people's phone and Internet records -- a so-called dragnet in a search for terrorist communications.
Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a "dragnet" for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.