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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

Predator had been used in attempts to entrap at least 87 people, according to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

It sent representatives to the West to entrap Russian exiles under the pretext of helping the resistance movement.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

“I don’t know if you are legit, crazy or trying to entrap me,” she wrote.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

It has been urged that in other stories a husband entraps and betrays the brother of his wife.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

Lindberg claimed he was entrapped by the commissioner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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 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

At the 2020 trial, Lindberg’s lawyers argued in part that he didn’t commit a crime and that he was entrapped by Causey’s participation with authorities.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

His performance proved how high he could soar when he could unleash himself from the constant selfdoubt that had entrapped him after the death of Billy.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

Nevertheless, the lies, deceptions and sudden strokes of honesty and performative goodwill have become so frequent as to be inseparable at this point, entrapping Sarah in a perpetual guessing game.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021

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 Irving, Washington