trap
Example Sentences
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On Tuesday, HormuzTracker, which provides a Strait of Hormuz shipping-disruption dashboard, showed that there are around 2,500 vessels still trapped inside the Persian Gulf, with 400 waiting outside of the strait.
From MarketWatch
It has become an entry point for young Americans seeking quick dopamine, packaged as entertainment but functioning as a behavioral trap.
Programs designed to help people get back on their feet instead became a multigenerational trap.
He posted photographs that showed off trappings of luxury without ever revealing his face.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead of trapping light inside solid matter, they confine it within subwavelength air cavities etched into a material with a very high refractive index.
From Science Daily
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