trap
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Sweeney said Huang had built one of the few companies to reach massive scale while continuing to innovate, while others "fell into the trap" of choosing profits over innovation.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Many service members face an often invisible financial trap when they step out of uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
While Adams ultimately turned his financial situation around, his experience illustrates an often invisible trap that awaits many service members when they step out of uniform.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
In cyber-security, a "honeypot" is a digital decoy - such as a fake computer network or file - deliberately set up to look like a vulnerable target to lure and trap hackers.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Gertrustein had said that Sam had a mind like a steel trap.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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But it still feels more warranted and useful to focus on AI’s emergent potential to reduce mass death than to get trapped in speculation about its hypothetical risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
This can influence both its speed of ascent and the way trapped volcanic gases escape.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Rescuers are searching for survivors trapped under the rubble in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Two college students in June were reportedly also trapped in the keyhole at Panther State Beach, an opening in the rock that separates it from Yellow Bank Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Akira and Dodger were trapped in the bald, but safe.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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The horse stumbles, trapping Galadriel underneath as the figure, a ring-wearing nazgnagôl, strides toward her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Traditionally, researchers have accomplished this by trapping atoms or molecules in a vacuum or embedding them inside solid materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Steve Palin and Charles Aron, who are both lepidopterists and specialise in the study of moths, said the beauty of trapping moths was "you just never know what's going to turn up".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Eager to catch his biggest fish yet and keep the show highly rated, Hansen made the fatal mistake of pursuing the predator, rather than trapping him.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I lie on my bed, trapping the bunnies next to the wall.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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