entrap
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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
Occultists have learned that by deploying sound vibrations they can summon angels from the cosmic ether and entrap them on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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
AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
“Do you want me then,” said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, “to deceive and entrap you?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
This infinite circle of events and eventualities entraps us, so that within every facet of the fight over the company’s past and future ripples a sense of inevitability.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
The film, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier, tells the story of a playboy, the detective who entraps him and the detective’s daughter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
As the trap the fox-mouth seizes, And the tongue entraps the ermine,520 Towards a man inclines a maiden, And the ways of other households.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
“Min Zin was lured to China by official government organizations and entrapped by Chinese security services. The accusations against him are completely unfounded,” a State Department spokesperson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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
Worried about being entrapped, Cox’s friend went back to their hotel.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
Tarleton defeated! and by the rude soldier he had been so sure of entrapping!
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
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