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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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Noun

Also called devil's snare, the plant's seeds, roots, stems, and leaves are all dangerous if ingested.

— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 July 2026
So, bringing the expressive pads allowed people to experiment with making music by sliding their fingers across them, putting a snare in the middle and a rim shot around the edges.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of snare

Verb

What to read next Within one lunar week (which is roughly seven months on Earth), over half the methane was trapped at the moon's cold polar areas, with a whopping 42% of the substance trapped at the south pole compared to 12% at the north pole.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 14 July 2026
The film follows a man trapped inside a bar, where reality begins to unravel in increasingly disturbing ways.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Definition of trap

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To make the digital instruction feel authentic, Huang used motion-capture technology to record the movements of real-life dance teachers — with their permission.

— Chloe Veltman, NPR, 11 July 2026
Those phones can’t be used to browse the internet, access social media or contact friends and family, serving primarily to receive production texts and capture photos instead.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026

Definition of capture

Verb

There were 27 people inside the store at the time, including two who became partially entrapped but were able to free themselves and safely leave, according to local authorities.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 July 2026
Two people were partially entrapped in the debris but managed to free themselves and safely escape the building.

— Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of entrap

Noun

These notions of disappearance and abandonment—as though Millett were some universal mother or authority figure walking out on her responsibilities—sit oddly beside the work’s bald presentation of entrapment and humiliation.

— Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 13 June 2026
The franchise launched in 1996 with a game that took players and Croft to Peru, Greece, Egypt, and the lost island of Atlantis, dodging all manner of creatures and entrapments.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026

Definition of entrapment

Verb

The operation, ProPublica found, ensnared innocent residents of the majority-Black city who said they were targeted and harassed because of their race.

— Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
By 2014, the Honeywells and their compound were ensnared in local controversy.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 28 June 2026

Definition of ensnare

Noun

Iran’s new energy weapon Following the start of US- and Israeli-led attacks on February 28, Iran almost immediately declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, creating the largest oil supply shock in history.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
While setting up an attack near the France box, midfielder Dani Olmo overcame a hard challenge that knocked him down to play a through ball to Pedro Porro.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026

Definition of attack

Noun

Instead, the Argentines should enjoy enormous credit for an all-out assault in the game’s final 10 or 12 minutes.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Syrsky is known as a more traditional commander, and his reforms have focused on forming new infantry assault groups and procuring traditional weapons.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 July 2026

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