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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

Occultists have learned that by deploying sound vibrations they can summon angels from the cosmic ether and entrap them on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

It sent representatives to the West to entrap Russian exiles under the pretext of helping the resistance movement.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 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

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

Alcina, the sorceress who entraps soldiers in her pleasure garden, is here haunted by aging; her elderly double wanders the set.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019

"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

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

Consumer Product Safety Commission, users of these bed rails can become entrapped within the bed rail itself or between the product and the side of a mattress when it’s attached to a bed.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

They’re not easily entrapped, these two, and who can blame them for keeping the fruits of their painstaking labor secret?

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.

From Slate ● Jul. 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

“It feels less entrapping than other social media does.”

From New York Times ● May 10, 2022

But Frankfort had already, after the seventeenth century, become the centre of a special branch of the business for entrapping men for the Imperial army.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav