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

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

England’s drops were poor, but Woakes expertly exploited the swing to entrap Mathews.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2024

Here’s the key: Poppy, Charles-Haden, Mabel and Oliver gather in a diner as they try to figure out a way to entrap the person they believe is the murderer: Cinda Canning.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

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