as in searching
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
the owner of the bed-and-breakfast often trolls antique stores for furniture and knickknacks
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Recent Examples of trolling
Over a 14-year period, nine protection or restraining orders were filed against Barrett for incidents that involved the harassment or assault of at least six women; this included death threats, trolling on Instagram, and impersonating a police officer.
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Annette McGivney, Outside, 9 Dec. 2025
Hegesth’s post is trolling, nothing more.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 2 Dec. 2025
The opposition also put a little mustard on the move, with Savannah pretending to not know the outcome and trolling Jawan by acting to be hurt by his betrayal.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Dec. 2025
That hasn’t stopped 50 Cent from trolling him on social media since the allegations went public.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 1 Dec. 2025
But that didn’t stop him from publicly trolling Wolverine fans the moment he was introduced.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
When Combs’ legal issues began to surface, Jackson was well known by fans on his popular social media accounts for trolling the Bad Boy Records founder.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2025
Fabulous house, wonderful food, 30 companies trolling for dough, a raft of others nibbling and drinking.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
After the Jays took a 3-2 series lead following Game 5, Drake even had some fun trolling Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani with a pair of posts to his IG Story.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2025
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Rescuers retrieved eight people alive and were searching for the missing still trapped after a huge mound of garbage and debris collapsed on them in the village of Binaliw in Cebu city, police said.—
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Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Wednesday that it had been notified that teams had recommenced searching for Ran Gvili.—
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Wegmans, a popular supermarket chain, is now scanning the faces of customers and storing data so its security system can recognize them.—
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In 2017, the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to a team of English and French researchers who used advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese.—
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“Trolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trolling. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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