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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

England’s drops were poor, but Woakes expertly exploited the swing to entrap Mathews.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

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

“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

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

"Well, you said,…… there is not a single high-collared guy who with smooth face entraps innocent people……."

From Botchan (Master Darling) by Morri, Yasotaro

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

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

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

Even a Negro, entrapped by ignorance and exploitation—as I had been—could, if he had the will and the love for it, learn to read and understand the world in which he lived.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

In the stomach, germs must also overcome other deadly barriers such as digestive enzymes, entrapping mucus and the ever-watchful immune system defenses.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2023

Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Was he not robbing the parish of the tithes, and all the while entrapping the souls of men and women?

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony