entrapped
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What to know: Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, host of Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator,” in this drama about the moral gray areas of a show that entrapped pedophiles for entertainment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
A few weeks later Ferguson was entrapped by the News of the World newspaper, videoed apparently offering to sell access to Andrew for £500,000.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
They’re not easily entrapped, these two, and who can blame them for keeping the fruits of their painstaking labor secret?
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
