Dragnets [noun]

Software like Palantir’s casts a digital dragnet, with real-world implications, even if it exists out of sight.

He had thrown out a dragnet of detectives and every suspicious character in the city was passing through it or landing in prison.

The Indulgence was a dragnet, drawing large hauls of hungry fish, and leaving them to squirm on the shores of sinful compromises.

I thank you cordially for the police protection afforded me while the chief had his dragnet in operation.

It moved on unostentatiously to other parts of the city and around it the Ranger dragnet tightened.

Gard immediately called upon the Chicago police to throw out a dragnet and a general alarm, and this was done.

Another invalid—my secretary—one flounders in a dragnet of unfortunate circumstances.

At Brownsville a similar dragnet had operated at about the same time.

Ronquillo had “set a dragnet,” and taken the rice of all the people within reach, beginning with himself.

Their idea of hunting for a workman is to dragnet the back rooms of saloons—especially if they're after a Socialist.