trap
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Luxe Paws founder Jacquie Navratil has helped trap and release 19,000 cats since 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
What really closed the trap, she said, was a trip to Paris the next month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Ryonex has emerged as one of the most notable names in Japan’s new generation of futuristic trap and melodic drill.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
He is known to listen to trap music, a UK form of hip-hop, and both he and Palmer appeared in pop icon Madonna's promotional short film Confessions II in June.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Owen held the raw meat from the bear trap as far away from him as he could and turned his head away.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Social media has many users trapped in nostalgia loops, desperately clinging to a simpler era that wasn’t so uniquely mired in digital discontent.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The yacht lost all power and steering after making contact with a fish farm in Red Bay, in 60 knots of wind, causing it to become trapped.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
But I’m not so sure that the families of the 250,000 Pennsylvania students trapped in underperforming schools would agree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The tribes also have worked together after rains to orchestrate rescue missions for chi that are trapped in puddles, offshoots and agricultural ditches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Father Julien and the other prisoners are trapped in the chaos.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Unlike this morning’s last-minute rescue, this trapping has been in the works for a week and planned out with military-like precision.
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
But the prospect also carries environmental risks if increased traffic accelerates Arctic melting, with soot emissions that settle on the ice cap trapping heat from sunlight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
I had hunted them when I was young in the thore-forests of Kerin, why not go trapping them now in the thore-forests of Pulefen?
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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