traps

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Bird felt it was critical that her children learn what she hadn’t known about money and avoid the same traps she had fallen into.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

To avoid yield traps we also looked for names whose quarterly dividend payments ate up no more than 75% of their earnings.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

That being said, Jacir’s fourth feature — packed as it is with storylines — could stand a bit more context and fewer of the expositional traps that big-cast sagas easily fall into.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

A version with 486 ports could hold up to ten billion charges at once, which is about a thousand times more than conventional ion traps.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Papa took one of the traps and looked it over.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls