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Chip makers use it as a carrier gas to entrap and transport certain chemicals, transfer energy to chemical reactants and cool silicon wafers during production.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026

They added: "The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

The document outlines the myriad ways the country’s security agents would try to surveil, entrap, compromise and recruit American visitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

“AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real,” she warned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

No telling whether the voices were fox spirits, imitating the voices of loved ones, out to entrap her.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

FBI Director Kash Patel said "you cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm's way."

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

Sterling’s performance art slowly becomes indistinguishable from the Kafkaesque legal system that entraps the performers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023

Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.

From Salon ● May 8, 2021

Alcina, the sorceress who entraps soldiers in her pleasure garden, is here haunted by aging; her elderly double wanders the set.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019

My lords: this Welsh freebooter hath shown himself a better general than I. He hath enticed us into this valley, and then hath closed the gate behind us, as one entraps a bear or wolf.

From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall

Cyclospora parasites often become entrapped in produce through contaminated water used to grow or wash it, so areas that come into contact with water are more likely to be affected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Thailand previously implemented similar measures on neighbouring Myanmar, which is also home to thriving scam networks that have entrapped thousands of foreigners.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday that users of the Medline Bed Assist Bar can become entrapped within the bed rail or between the product and the side of a mattress.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

Consumer Product Safety Commission, users of these bed rails can become entrapped within the bed rail itself or between the product and the side of a mattress when it’s attached to a bed.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

Miss Woodhouse made the proper acquiescence; and finding that nothing more was to be entrapped from any communication of Mrs. Cole’s, turned to Frank Churchill.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

The source he was meeting turned out to be an FSB agent tasked with entrapping him.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2024

In the stomach, germs must also overcome other deadly barriers such as digestive enzymes, entrapping mucus and the ever-watchful immune system defenses.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2023

Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Whatever the country is called," said Mrs. Wibberley-Stimpson aggressively, "I should like some explanation of that Baron Troitz's conduct in entrapping us into coming here.

From In Brief Authority by F. Anstey