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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
Utilizing cameras to target offenders can both help the police deploy limited resources efficiently and — when combined with facial recognition or bike-registration data — snare offenders remotely.
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Steve Cohen,
New York Daily News,
13 July 2025
Complaining about the rich comes with many snares, as events reminded Anwar last week.
If you are trapped by moving water, move to the highest possible point and call 911 if possible.
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CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Emergency crews—including police, firefighters, and paramedics—rushed to the scene, deploying 62 rescuers and 22 vehicles to assist survivors trapped in the wreckage, local media reports.
While the solar capture component is still subject to thermal effects, the energy storage component benefits from the heat.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
International implications of using foreign fighters By allowing non-Ukrainians to serve, Kyiv runs the risk of these fighters being labelled as mercenaries by Russia, leaving them vulnerable to capture, detention and extradition to Russia.
How Consumer Reports Conducted Their Toddler Tower Test Kirchner writes in the report that CR selected a variety of toddler tower design styles and evaluated them based on stability and entrapment.
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DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
4 Sep. 2025
Fame is perhaps this tower, an ultimate entrapment in the self that is also a deliverance from it.
As aid groups say famine has already taken hold, the assault risks the lives of remaining hostages—captured by Hamas in its October 2023 attack—while Netanyahu faces mounting political turmoil at home, even as Washington continues to hold Hamas responsible for prolonging the conflict.
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Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Even when put under lighter sanctions in 2018, during the Salisbury chemical attack, claims of election interference, and criminal cyber operations continued.
Investigators later confirmed his DNA matched evidence from that case and others, including attacks in Okemos, Michigan, in 1994; Birmingham, Michigan, in 1995; and Columbus, Ohio, in 1997, as well as two assaults in Ventura in the early 1980s.
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Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Though Smith was charged with four counts of assault for scaring and endangering the villagers, troopers did not say he was involved in his mother’s death.
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