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

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

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024

Or how those hands, which could set the most intricate of snares, could as easily entrap me.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins