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Definition of mousetrap

as in snare

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Noun

If the locker room was riding high, or if the team was favored heavily against a particular opponent, Parcells would whip out the mousetraps. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2025 If YouTube delivered a huge ratings number, the broadcast networks that have leaned on their reach for relevance – Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC – would have to admit that YouTube, with its 2 billion monthly active users, is simply a better mousetrap to maximize audience. — Contessa Brewer,alex Sherman, CNBC, 11 Sep. 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

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Recounting her boyfriend calling the police on her during their fraught break-up, the chorus rings out over rowdy snares like a brutal playground taunt.

— Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
Poaching once devastated the park, but in the past decade, 40,000 wire snares have been removed, and black rhinos, cheetahs, lions and wild dogs have been reintroduced.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 19 July 2026

Definition of snare

Noun

The individuals sampled for the study had been actively swimming, hunting and taking bait before capture!

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
According to Entropy, the total system is designed to capture up to 192,000 tonnes annually, including the earlier Glacier capture installations.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of capture

Verb

Democrats called the hearing a politically motivated attempt at entrapping Fauci and praised the scientist for his work during the pandemic.

— Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 29 July 2026
Democrats on the committee have echoed Fauci's argument that the hearing is meant to entrap him.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Definition of entrap

Noun

Most of Harpman’s work that has so far been translated into English circles feelings of entrapment, disorientation, and exile.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator later determined the newborn died by homicide, finding that the child died from entrapment after being placed and tied inside a plastic trash bag beneath bloody paper towels and other garbage.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of entrapment

Noun

In recent years and as online culture changed, Hilton toned down his public attacks and appeared to embrace fatherhood and adopt a kinder public persona, even integrating more family-friendly content on his site.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
On April 1, Shawnda Jackson, the girl's grandmother, said there had been six adult relatives at the house, where the girl lived with 11 relatives, when the attack happened.

— Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of attack

Noun

Prosecutors have charged the 15-year-old with one count each of first-degree assault with a firearm enhancement and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

— Joe Kottke, NBC news, 31 July 2026
There was no autopsy — only a physical examination that showed no evidence of defensive wounds or assault.

— Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026

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