trap
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In his first UK broadcast interview, the Wall Street Journal correspondent said he realised he had been "lured into a trap" when masked men surrounded him at a restaurant in March 2023, and arrested him.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Is such sheer, universal familiarity the root of love — the kind of connection that everyone from Keats to Keaton wrote about — or does it trap you in one place, stunting your growth?
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Evan Gershkovich was originally supposed to come to me; I’d set a trap for him,” Piunov wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Our two militaries should maintain regular dialogue, and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention,” he continued, adding a historical reference to rising powers challenging established ones: “The Thucydides trap can be overcome.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
I can’t help but feel like the spider is luring the fly into a trap.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The couple said they and and their terrified child were briefly trapped inside their home before managing to escape through a neighbour's property.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
His parents remained trapped in Munich; he never saw them again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Food can preserve tradition without becoming trapped by it.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The trapped ion results represent another step toward quantum simulations that are too complex for even the world's most powerful conventional supercomputers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
I had never felt so trapped, so humiliated, and so incapable of doing anything about it.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Both have large pore volumes and high specific surface areas, properties that make them well suited for trapping gas molecules.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Jacquie Navratil, who always has cat trapping gear in her van, prepares to trap a colony at Angel City Lumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
This, along with farmers and landowners trapping and killing wolves, pushed them to the brink of eradication.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The fact that a quartet of such caliber signed on to this dreck would be surprising if Netflix’s M.O. weren’t trapping great actors in middling movies.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
“It was just so easy to let you think so, thereby trapping you in the palace without all that fuss we’ve had the last couple of times we met.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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