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It uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans to eat — a feeding strategy also used by anemones and some jellies.

The high fees can trap renters earning lower or average wages in apartments for years, unable to shell out the cost of an $18,000 gold Cartier bracelet simply to move apartments.

From Salon

Drawn by the promise of jump scares and Hugh Grant in maniacal-villain mode, set in what appeared from the trailers to be a supernatural trap of a house, I sought big-screen escape from the crowing/hand-wringing news cycle.

Bluesky does not trap users in nonchronological feeds.

From Slate

A teenager blackmailed into sending explicit images to catfish killer Alexander McCartney has told of her anger that he used her photograph to trap other young girls.

From BBC

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

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