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Recent Examples of mousetrap
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 June 2024
Undeterred, Halpin and team endeavor to continue to build a better mousetrap.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Noun
But if their previous pictures felt like ornate, twisted little mousetraps, The Devil’s Bath feels less precise, more cosmic.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 June 2024
Undeterred, Halpin and team endeavor to continue to build a better mousetrap.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
All of that seems to have been forgotten, though, in the rush to better mousetrap the category with extreme levels of brightness, unconventional form factors, solar charging, and other needless complication.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetrap
Noun
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The performers manipulate five batteries of drums, including timpani, snares, congas, bongos, tom-toms, and bass drums.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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With a total budget of barely $40,000 per year, CATS also helps search the national park for snares set by bushmeat poachers and carries out an extensive conservation education program designed primarily to teach people how to stay safe around elephants.—
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
8 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Vehicles trapped in mud Four vehicles were trapped in mud along Mulholland Drive, around the 4100 block of Alhama Drive in Woodland Hills, Sunday evening.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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By trapping itself within the Paris framework, the U.S. was playing along with Chinese ambitions, positioning itself to squander America’s natural energy advantage, and inflicting terrible harm on its auto sector.—
The Editors,
National Review,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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One of the most exciting innovations in carbon removal is direct air capture (DAC), or the process of using machines to extract carbon directly from the atmosphere.—
Swish Goswami,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Abbott is offering a $5,000 bounty for intelligence that leads to the capture of members of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In reality, Nick wants to get his revenge on Donnie by entrapping him.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2025
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Unlike technology companies that work to ensnare (and monetize) our attention, Foreman entrapped our bodies only to liberate our minds.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Nevertheless, as alarmingly berserk entrapment scenarios go, Jeffrey’s feature is vivid in terms of both unsettling atmosphere and visceral action.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2025
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The issue of entrapment is an interesting one, but Hit Man is too playful to get hung up on that or other moral and ethical issues.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
11 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The sanctions are the outgoing Biden administration’s final attempt to stop the Salt Typhoon hacks, which have ensnared at least nine US telecommunication companies, including AT&T and Verizon.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Twelfth Amendment would resolve the presidential election quagmire that ensnared the candidates in 1800.—
Karin Wulf / Made by History,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The three women lived in the home on King Road with two other women who went physically unharmed in the early-morning attack, and Chapin was Kernodle’s boyfriend and stayed over for the night.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
24 Jan. 2025
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An even more pointed distinction comes when audio of a news report is layered over images of memorials and prayers for the victims of the mosque attack.—
Caryn James,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.—
Jacky Wong,
WSJ,
6 Feb. 2023
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Zelenskyy has warned for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault after about two months of virtual stalemate along the front line that stretches across the south and east.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
31 Jan. 2023
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“Mousetrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetrap. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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