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Recent Examples of mousetrap
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 28 Apr. 2025
View gallery - 4 images The sea of tomorrow might be about as difficult to traverse stealthily as an elephant stomping through a room full of mousetraps thanks to Anduril's Seabed Sentry undersea sensor network that uses AI to autonomously track ocean traffic.
—New Atlas, 26 Apr. 2025
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Noun
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
View gallery - 4 images The sea of tomorrow might be about as difficult to traverse stealthily as an elephant stomping through a room full of mousetraps thanks to Anduril's Seabed Sentry undersea sensor network that uses AI to autonomously track ocean traffic.
—New Atlas, 26 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetrap
Noun
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Beyond that, apex scavengers are sometimes killed accidentally—hyenas and lions can get caught in wire snares meant for herbivores in Africa.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Immediately, the divine collides with the inane, and Goddess runs into a fundamental dramatic snare.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
Verb
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If not, neighbors, friends, or anyone nearby needs to know that they could be trapped.—
Carolyn Rosenblatt,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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After the World Trade Center’s South Tower came crashing down around his ears on 9/11, trapping him under the rubble for several hours, retired Port Authority Police Department Sgt.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The arrest came amid the Trump administration’s expanding deportation campaign that has spotlighted the capture of immigrants convicted of crimes.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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The captures come as Louisiana authorities continue to investigate how the men were able to create a hole in a cell wall by ripping out a toilet and to escape without being noticed by guards in the early hours of May 16.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
Verb
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Most horror flicks entrap their characters in one location or put them in some sort of unique, tense situation (think: satanic possession, or pissing off the wrong truck driver, attracting the wrong person, etc.), but in Final Destination, Death works with the great mundane canvas of ordinary life.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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Early motherhood entraps them—and their children—in a bleak socioeconomic cycle that’s almost impossible to break.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In other words, if a product increases your baby’s risk of entrapment, suffocation, or strangulation, it should not be used.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
7 May 2025
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But my outsized feelings of enclosure and entrapment were the tunnel vision of a forty-year-old fear crashing through my long and studied insulation.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
Verb
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First on the docket is a pile of cords knotted together, ensnaring an eyelash curler and a pen.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
23 June 2025
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The areas surrounding downtown, which Solis represents, have been been hit particularly hard, amid protests, a curfew and a raid at Ambiance Apparel that ensnared dozens of people.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Sunday’s attacks follow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments two days ago that Moscow is ready for a fresh round of direct peace talks in Istanbul.—
Volodymyr Yurchuk,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine despite talks between the two countries in Istanbul, which were supposed to lead to a ceasefire.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
29 June 2025
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Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.—
Jacky Wong,
WSJ,
6 Feb. 2023
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Zelenskyy has warned for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault after about two months of virtual stalemate along the front line that stretches across the south and east.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
31 Jan. 2023
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“Mousetrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetrap. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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