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
"You could be kids messing about or someone trying to entrap me," I suggested.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
Cafés tend to be tiny and don’t provide enough of a natural environment for cats or small pigs, and those that entrap wildlife are abhorrent, Azuma said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 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
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
Yonder is Bettie and my one chance of manhood; and blind chance, just the machination of a tiny microbe, entraps me as I tread toward all this.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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
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
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
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
Critics have accused federal agents of entrapping a group men who were down on their luck after doing prison time.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
"Then you admit the charge," said the Frenchman eagerly, as if he had succeeded in entrapping a confession.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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