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as in entanglement
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Recent Examples of entrapment
According to the Associated Press, Crouser was nursing a pretty serious elbow injury called nerve entrapment which required an MRI to evaluate his right arm.
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Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
How Consumer Reports Conducted Their Toddler Tower Test Kirchner writes in the report that CR selected a variety of toddler tower design styles and evaluated them based on stability and entrapment.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
Fame is perhaps this tower, an ultimate entrapment in the self that is also a deliverance from it.
—Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
This background establishes Janalice’s vulnerability and foreshadows her entrapment in trafficking.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
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Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
How Consumer Reports Conducted Their Toddler Tower Test Kirchner writes in the report that CR selected a variety of toddler tower design styles and evaluated them based on stability and entrapment.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
Fame is perhaps this tower, an ultimate entrapment in the self that is also a deliverance from it.
—Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
This background establishes Janalice’s vulnerability and foreshadows her entrapment in trafficking.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrapment
Noun
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This transit can also expose hidden motives in relationships, financial entanglements and even regarding our sense of self-worth.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Being buried in dry science explainers is part of what makes those concepts—nonlocality, entanglement, black hole gravity—difficult to understand.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Beere added that officers were nearing key arrests in Saturday’s triple homicide.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Its most recent casualty update put the total at 34 protesters killed, two security forces killed, and 2,076 arrests.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This one's for the Zoomers, as the uncanny motion-capture animation of Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express creeped out many older audience members.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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The suspects are both repeat offenders who avoided capture for 10 days before authorities caught up with them.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This identity enmeshment can cause tunnel vision and reduce resilience.—
Alliance Manchester Business School,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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That is an unhealthy amount of enmeshment.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Later that month, a judge lifted the restriction and ordered that Hildebrandt must put $100,000 from the potential sale in a bank account for the children, according to ABC7.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Local blackout restrictions for Marlins would be eliminated in that scenario.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Entrapment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrapment. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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