Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for booby-trapping
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Step outside the living room and comb through your home, mining your house for items that might feel lackluster or forgotten that can be repurposed in your living room instead.—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
26 Feb. 2026 -
In another writer-director’s hands, this story would be rife for mining the racial and class tensions of the era.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
12 Feb. 2026
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Instead of attacking, linemen are often tasked with reading, reacting and playing two different gaps.—
Joseph Hoyt,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Some ghouls lose their humanity, while others become more violent shells of their former selves, attacking the wasteland creatures and the player.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, the Assad regime was bombing and gassing civilians.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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The United States inserted itself in the war by bombing Iranian nuclear sites.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Booby-trapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booby-trapping. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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