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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

They added: "The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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

When Perla rejects Ulises’ practiced advances, he enlists the aid of her put-upon niece, who longs to escape both her demanding aunt and the decaying mansion that entraps her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

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

The film, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier, tells the story of a playboy, the detective who entraps him and the detective’s daughter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

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.

Their crevices are convenient hiding spots for the microscopic parasites to become entrapped, said Byron Chaves, a food-safety scientist and professor at Rutgers University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

The kind who can stand up against those hoping to keep you entrapped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

Molitor has publicly claimed that he and others were entrapped by undercover FBI agents and informants who played key roles during firearms training and rides to Elk Rapids.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 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

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

Strangely enough, never again did John succeed in entrapping one of the talking creatures of which, as we have clearly seen, there are plenty in the sea, if one has luck to find them!

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary