Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birdlime
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At the landfill site dozens of rescuers scrambled overnight in search of people trapped.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026 -
How much is a trapping license in Kentucky?—
Hannah Pinski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
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Robert DeLong, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher who has studied sea lions for decades, told me that removal teams, which must activate the traps manually, could at first snare the animals during daylight hours.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Tongue came on in the 87th over and duly soon removed Carey via a plan to snare him at leg gully.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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More than a decade ago, the organic farmer began to notice that the pet occasionally picked up sticks and used them to scratch herself — a behavior that is known though not often recorded — and captured her in action as her technique improved.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The tapes, later smuggled out of the country, captured Kim’s strikingly candid criticisms of his own films.—
Will Ripley,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Dec. 2025
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Getting young people to trust and depend on the traffickers is part of entrapping them.—
Anne P. DePrince,
The Conversation,
17 Dec. 2025
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Several years ago, Los Angeles County authorities collared some coyotes to track their movement within the region, Regis said.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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In February 2025, officials collared 12 wolves — seven female, five male.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Those troops haven't yet received orders to deploy, the official said, and a sudden deployment to Greenland wouldn't mesh with the training troops would receive in preparation for Minnesota, which would include de-escalation and civil disturbance training.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
20 Jan. 2026
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Trippin’ guests are selected based on who will mesh and create cohesive content that benefits all parties involved.—
Dahvi Shira,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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The other part of the lawsuit, involving out-of-state petition gatherers, is tangled in a separate legal fight about a law passed in 2025.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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Other add-ons that can be seen on bikes in the museum’s collection include acetylene gas headlamps, map cases, tool-carrying attachments and, for ladies’ bicycles, a skirt guard so the fabric would not become tangled in the wheel spokes.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
11 Jan. 2026
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An investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games has ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fix games as recently as last season, federal prosecutors said Thursday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Jan. 2026
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The ones announced Thursday arrived three months after federal prosecutors in New York charged 34 people after two investigations that ensnared Rozier, Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Birdlime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birdlime. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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