trap
Example Sentences
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“Normally there’d be a current charting trap or rap song, but there’s something about that song that I think makes you recalibrate how you’re looking at the scene in general.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The just-quirky-girls-at-a-country-club mood does eventually turn darker, but the musical, like some other works of art about mental illness, often falls into the trap of romanticizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
But in the capital, he describes it as a trap.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
A stock with a high dividend yield might be considered a value trap because investors expect the dividend to be cut.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
The other end was covered by a sturdy metal grate with a big stinky hunk of meat hanging on it to lure a bear into the trap.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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