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

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