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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

Angwang’s lawyers, however, contend that the interrogation was a setup to entrap the officer, despite having his federal case dropped by the Justice Department earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 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

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

Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.

From Salon ● May 8, 2021

All that would need to happen is for a glacier to float above whatever geological feature entraps it.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2018

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 R. W. Chambers

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

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

To see Sofia Coppola, who specializes in quiet, precise examinations of the interior lives of overlooked women entrapped by privilege, take on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” is just too perfect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

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

In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.

From Slate ● Jul. 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

His Act III prelude had the thick texture of molasses, entrapping and hopeless.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

Professional gamblers, luxuriously dressed and living like princes, frequented the steamers of those days for the purpose of entrapping and fleecing the passengers.

From Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work by Rev. Gross Alexander