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Recent Examples of entrapment
Polish-born and Paris-based, Piotr Kamler is an experimental animator whose work explores temporal distortions and spatial paradoxes, conjuring here a slow-creeping sense of entrapment intensified by an unnerving soundscape—a clear antecedent to Barker’s nightmarish visions.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
Over time, this dynamic can create a sense of entrapment.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Landau starts thinking about how the ensemble will navigate a change into another scene at the encampment that has sprung up around Floyd’s entrapment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
This financial entrapment varies significantly by industry.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
Over time, this dynamic can create a sense of entrapment.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Landau starts thinking about how the ensemble will navigate a change into another scene at the encampment that has sprung up around Floyd’s entrapment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
This financial entrapment varies significantly by industry.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrapment
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Hers is a direct critique of the banalities of global capitalism and its entanglement with labor and production, told through a body of work that is at once familiar yet strange, moving between the real and the fictional to fascinating and powerful effect.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Their fearlessness is grounded in training and in seeing the Middle East as a limited operation in the future, after more than two decades of divisive and protracted entanglements — in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond — which Trump had campaigned on ending.—
Adam Carlson,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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Barnhart suggests the arrests underscore the notion that companies have to look beyond the typical applicant portals and reassess their entire talent pipelines given the way the DPRK IT worker threat has adapted.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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While most protesters were peaceful, incidents of violence occurred, leading to over 100 arrests.—
Adeola Adeosun
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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These pilot programs involve the robot performing tasks like machine tending, part inspection and reality capture.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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Hotel Congress: Step into history at this iconic hotel known for its retro charm, unbeatable brunch and ties to the capture of outlaw John Dillinger.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2025
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Starting in the 1970s, home construction plummeted and prices soared in high-opportunity coastal cities because of restrictions on supply.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
7 July 2025
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The company said in a statement that inventory value adjustments and the impact of U.S. restrictions on advanced AI chips for China had contributed to the decline in profits.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
7 July 2025
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“Entrapment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrapment. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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