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Recent Examples of mousetrap
Noun
Even my mousetraps had been chewed and a box of .22 ammunition crushed.—Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025 Over the weekend, the G-Unit mogul reignited the controversy by posting a video clip of a rat carefully trying to steal a slice of cheese without triggering a mousetrap.—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
All of that seems to have been forgotten, though, in the rush to better mousetrap the category with extreme levels of brightness, unconventional form factors, solar charging, and other needless complication.—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for mousetrap
Brooks Sports, a sports equipment company, offers a possible reason for the squeaking, noting that the cause is often air or moisture trapped under the insoles within the shoes.
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Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
Grijalva trapped in the waiting place Press conferences are not the only recurring agenda item on Capitol Hill amid the government shutdown.
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Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Oct. 2025
Saldaña also expressed excitement over director James Cameron’s interest in developing a documentary about the Avatar films, particularly the behind-the-scenes work that goes into performance capture.
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Elizabeth Rosner,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill addressed the media following the capture, emphasizing the danger Groves posed to the public.
Courts have sometimes concluded the government's conduct was outrageous when police have used brutality against a defendant or government agents entrapped a defendant.
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Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
The Eagles, at times, struggled to entrap the eighth-year veteran quarterback.
The group's entrapment in a strange place, forced to navigate through a series of complex challenges to escape, is reminiscent of Alice in Borderland.
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Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
In 2016, aspiring writer-director Carmen Emmi came across a Los Angeles Times article about undercover cops who would arrest gay men on charges of lewd conduct in public bathrooms — a controversial tactic criticized as a form of entrapment.
Meanwhile, Jonathan and Mina Harker return to Transylvania with their teenage daughter, Quincey — only for her to be ensnared in the castle’s sinister games.
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Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
11 Oct. 2025
Finally, a legal battle between Carlton and Dominion ensnared several parties for years.
The Islamists were seen as complicit in India’s worst plane hijack in 1999 and the 2008 attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, which killed several Indian citizens, including two senior diplomats.
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Happymon Jacob,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
Shannon will man larger perimeter players, but not necessarily the point of attack as often.
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