booby-trapped

past tense of booby-trap
as in mined
to place hidden explosive devices in or under booby-trapped the field bordering the army's camp

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  • In a video released by the IDF, another four schools roughly two miles north of these were mined and destroyed, also in August.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The company said taxpayers would benefit in future years from royalties on any coal mined.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Late Saturday and early Sunday, Russia attacked Ukraine’s power grid in an aim to degrade Ukrainian energy infrastructure ahead of winter.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In August 2023, he was attacked by three fellow inmates, sustaining neck injuries that required medical treatment.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Booby-trapped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booby-trapped. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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