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The men reportedly used pieces of fish as bait, placing traps outside houses where they knew cats were kept, state media reported.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The experiments used small groups of termites under controlled conditions, and the researchers described the findings as support for developing bistrifluron further as a localized treatment or possible bait ingredient.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Also known as grabblers or hand-fishermen, noodlers use their own bare limbs as bait to catch enormous flathead catfish lurking in Southern and Midwestern rivers, creeks, and lakes.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

First, though, he would use one of the carcasses to bait a deadfall, in the hope of trapping something to eat overnight.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Someone - in this case SMT - "baits" the customer by advertising a particular product or service only to then say that's not available, pushing the client towards another, inferior, product or service.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

And because "weird" can mean so many different things, it baits those who feel attacked into dumb definitional debates.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024

“These baits are designed to be slow, because if they kill the ants super fast, there won’t be enough time to pass the toxicants or insecticide to the queen and the rest of the colony.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

The target predators often breed faster than they can be removed, catching the last few animals that avoid traps or baits is time-consuming and costly, and guarding against reinvasion is difficult, scientists say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2024

He walked off, barefooted on the coral rocks, to the ice house where the baits were stored.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Do you think he can resist being baited?

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

A baited camera mounted on a bottom lander captured rare footage of another goblin shark swimming freely in its natural environment.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

The zoo said recent sightings have been centred around the same area, with thermal drones, camera traps and traps baited with melon being used to lure her out.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Newsom also baited Homan: “Come and get me, tough guy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Anyhow, by the end of the first week I get near a hundred traps in the water, all baited and waiting for visitors.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

So if you’re blowing up someone’s spot, you’re baiting them up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

A lawyer representing Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is calling for the destruction of all copies of an extremely limited-edition, Operation-style board game mocking SGA for ‘foul baiting.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

There’s also some whining about Gilgeous-Alexander baiting foul calls from referees—initiating contact and then putting on a Juilliard-worthy death scene—but in this he’s hardly alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Through a proprietary mixture of light nostalgia baiting and ever-present curiosity, Gellar has achieved a rare type of icon status — a superstar who owns her legacy, but isn’t willing to rest on her laurels.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

The lecture might have gone on for some time, but Gebu had evidently grown bored with baiting him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw