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as in hitch
a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized
he noticed the booby trap in the interviewer's question just a little too late
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Recent Examples of booby-trap
Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
And that does not even consider the likelihood of a beacon which is also a booby trap.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
From guns to booby traps, Dutch leads the charge to take down the gnarly, terrifying looking alien.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
Wary of booby traps and with evening closing in, the troops did not enter the building until the next day.
—James MacKenzie, Reuters, 18 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Jun-ho’s drone picks up on a door on the ground that turns out to be a booby trap that kills one person and injures another.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
And that does not even consider the likelihood of a beacon which is also a booby trap.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
From guns to booby traps, Dutch leads the charge to take down the gnarly, terrifying looking alien.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
Wary of booby traps and with evening closing in, the troops did not enter the building until the next day.
—James MacKenzie, Reuters, 18 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for booby-trap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for booby-trap
Verb
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Particularly his ability to do things at such high speed and to help begin attacking moves in his own half.—
Philipp Lahm,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Police are searching for three suspects who were caught on video repeatedly attacking a 61-year-old trans woman outside of her convenience store in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The overwhelming majority of illicit vapes are made in China—including mine, which, according to its packaging, was manufactured in Hong Kong.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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The province is believed to have the highest number of unexploded mines in Vietnam.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The proposal goes off without a hitch as the two boys watch on.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Her feed cut out a few times during the song's first verse, then continued without a hitch through the chorus.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Within hours of Hamas’s attack, on October 7th, 2023, Israel began bombing Gaza.—
Colin Jones,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
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New York’s No. 1 romantic love bombs his new squeeze with grocery deliveries and an in-home masseuse visit, and Kate watches from the street as a pants-less Bronte runs out to tip the masseuse, who assures her that Joe Goldberg covered it all.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Drug prices are a political land mine, and companies are loath to raise prices given the anger among lawmakers and the public over medical costs.—
Joseph Choi,
The Hill,
22 Apr. 2025
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Russia has reportedly used more than a dozen types of antipersonnel land mines in Ukraine, according to Human Rights Watch.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
Verb
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Two of the victims, the 16-year-old and his 10-year-old sibling, were already outside of the vehicle, while the 4-year-old remained trapped inside.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Nina won’t turn her back on the young women trapped in a cycle of abuse and a lack of education, but the cumulative toll of the experience was one Kulumbegashvili wrestled with while writing.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
Noun
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There also is a bit of a risk as to how MSNBC will fare on its own.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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Water risk is fast becoming an existential threat to the apparel industry.—
Ken Katz,
Sourcing Journal,
5 May 2025
Noun
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In September 1856, the three-year-old, 171-foot long Steamboat Arabia, laden with over 200 tons of cargo bound for 16 frontier towns, struck a tree snag and quickly sank to the bottom of the Missouri River, just six miles west of Kansas City.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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More than a decade later, there are still up to 300 snags — dead standing trees — per acre in some of Yosemite’s most intensely affected areas, Stephens said.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Booby-trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booby-trap. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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