mousetrap
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If I can create a better mousetrap, because I’m observing something that has just been accepted, and I can do it better, then I will go into that industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
A bit like setting and later triggering a mousetrap.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
But they did have a crucial insight into how to build a better mousetrap.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023
"Wagner troops climbed into Bakhmut like rats into a mousetrap," Oleksander Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, told troops at the Bakhmut front this week.
From Reuters ● May 20, 2023
It opened behind the big black iron stove, just to the left of the mousetrap.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The first tells of laying mousetraps, but that didn’t work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Local volunteers pitched in to help build the contraptions, which are triggered by mousetraps and fashioned out of PVC pipe and chicken wire.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
But the gatekeepers of phony commercial solutions to existential violence — such as better helmets, no more effective than better mousetraps — want us to focus on only one aspect of football harm.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2023
"So these areas need to develop and implement plans to minimise risks and make evacuation routes, to ensure that they do not become mousetraps."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2022
Around the camp, Coach Hedge had rigged all sorts of trip wires, snares and oversized mousetraps that wouldn’t stop any self-respecting monster, but they might very well bring down a senior citizen.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
“It’s not speculative stuff that is going to get mousetrapped by a new large language model release in a year.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Last week, mousetrapped by George McGovern, whom he admires, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker performed a manful act.
From Time Magazine Archive
More often than they like to remember, defending linemen have sifted through to smear Passer Graham, found themselves mousetrapped behind the line of scrimmage while 235-lb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled.
From Time Magazine Archive
He couldn't let Gramps take the mousetrapped anti-gerasone—but, if he warned Gramps about it, Gramps would certainly make life in the apartment, which was merely insufferable now, harrowing.
From The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut
