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
England’s drops were poor, but Woakes expertly exploited the swing to entrap Mathews.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
“AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real,” she warned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
“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
Sterling’s performance art slowly becomes indistinguishable from the Kafkaesque legal system that entraps the performers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023
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
Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
And Miss Ada finds it impossible to refuse these invitations; and so the district entraps her, and keeps her in it.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
“Min Zin was lured to China by official government organizations and entrapped by Chinese security services. The accusations against him are completely unfounded,” a State Department spokesperson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"It's very, very concerning when you have such a volume of people entering an area and could end up being entrapped by a wildfire," Mr McMullen said.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday that users of the Medline Bed Assist Bar can become entrapped within the bed rail or between the product and the side of a mattress.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
The kind who can stand up against those hoping to keep you entrapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
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
The source he was meeting turned out to be an FSB agent tasked with entrapping him.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
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
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