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The phrase "trawling for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are searching for something, usually online or through a large collection of material. For example: "I spent the afternoon trawling for information on historic weather patterns in the area."
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This questionnaire is trawling for mental illness.
His trawling for screams felt smug and unappealing.
Whitehall is now trawling for candidates to replace Dame Eliza.
He was back on the streets yesterday trawling for votes.
They should be out right now, green nets trawling for cash in crustaceans.
It was detected early because of recently established Web-based systems trawling for unusual health events.
Around Bariloche, in the Lake District, there's fly-fishing, spinning and trawling for trout.
Herring and whiting are fished, and there is some trawling for cod and flatfish.
There are certainly a heck of a lot of surveyors out there trawling for opinions.
A Harvard political-science graduate student wandered around, trawling for a paper topic.
Another overseas invasion of muscular European soccer teams that have come trawling for games and greenbacks.
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