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Recent Examples of mousetrap
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
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetrap
Noun
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It’s also brilliantly arranged, from the chiming guitar on the intro to the way the rhythm section makes its entrance (McCartney-esque bassline and rat-a-tat snare) before pulling back on the chorus, where Ruess’ vocal appears to be floating in space on a bed of keyboards and piano.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Daugherty put the snare around the animal.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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If trapped by moving water, seek the highest possible point and contact emergency services by calling 911.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Many moths, attracted to the ultraviolet lights, were captured during a light-trapping excursion near Malles Venosta, Italy.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After evading capture at first, the bird was caught in June 2023.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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The first movie was a landmark achievement in visual effects and performance capture, and a milestone at the box office.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Eagles, at times, struggled to entrap the eighth-year veteran quarterback.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Hazard: Dressers can tip over and entrap children if not anchored to a wall, violating the STURDY Act standards.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Max Gao,
NBC news,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But most of those productions fell into the trap of self-parody that ensnares so many attempts at franchise crossovers.—
Robert Niles,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The confirmation of drones over Germany comes as NATO's Denmark investigates a wave of drone disruption to its airports that officials have characterized as a hybrid attack, and coincides with Estonian, Polish, and Romanian accusations against Russia of serious airspace incursions.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Overseas activists have tried to deliver aid in the past to Gaza but have either been intercepted by Israeli forces or come under some form of attack.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The meeting came less than a week after investigators said 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, a former Marine, crashed a pickup truck into the Grand Blanc ward of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before firing an assault-style rifle inside.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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The agents were reportedly performing a routine patrol in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, when the alleged assault occurred.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Mousetrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetrap. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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