entrapment

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Wildflowers flashed like fireflies in the brooding jungle of “Floral Entrapment II,” which artist Ema Ri made by applying paint with their hands and nails.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Entrapment certainly applies to the protagonists of “The Eden Test.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Connery also featured in many other films shot at Pinewood from 1957 onwards, including Woman of Straw, The Russia House, Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves and Entrapment.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2022

Entrapment occurs when investigators use coercion or persuasion to get targets to commit crimes that they showed no predisposition to commit until undercover agents or informants entered the picture.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Entrapment Devices.—Hoop and fyke nets and wire traps were used for 288 trap/net hours in 1957.

From Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas by Minckley, W. L.