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These tiny cavities act as miniature light traps, causing light to reflect back and forth and produce vivid colors.

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Cooler air traps pollutants close to the ground, creating a deadly mix of emissions from crop burning, factories and heavy traffic.

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She laid food traps, held night time searches, and used drones to look over sections of the Pennine Trail where Frankie could have got stuck.

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Following the initial sighting, live traps were deployed to monitor Asian hornet activity.

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Russian saboteurs, disguised as Ukrainian soldiers or civilians, have also strayed beyond the front line to set up booby traps, further blurring the line between civilian areas and the battlefield.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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