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mousetrapped

verb

past tense of mousetrap

as in captured

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The future governance of Venezuela was thrown into doubt after US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas in January.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Tensions in the South China Sea escalated again Friday after a Chinese Coast Guard vessel collided with a Philippine government ship, an encounter captured on video that prompted competing accounts from Manila and Beijing.

— Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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Firefighters saved a 12-year-old girl who was trapped in a town house that caught fire in the Florida Keys Monday morning, Monroe County Fire Rescue said.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Some people were trapped inside vehicles, while another was tossed out into an intersection.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

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For the difficult and dangerous business of selling secrets—the challenge of finding a buyer, the constant fear of getting betrayed or entrapped—BlackNet would do what eBay did for the garage sale.

— Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Robert is unwittingly entrapped, and has absconded with something mob bigwig Lombardi wants revenge for.

— Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of entrapped

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The case revolves around his connection to shuttered Banco Master, a case that has ensnared high-ranking politicians and judiciary members.

— MAURICIO SAVARESE, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Carrie Coon as a Holocaust survivor ensnared in a cult in The Liberation, the story of director Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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More recently, since late 2022, when the release of ChatGPT triggered a frenzy around the AI buildout, an investor in large-cap growth stocks would have netted a cumulative return of more than 98%, measured by the Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF) .

— Sarah Min, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Both agreements were authorized by law, the spokesperson said, ading that the latter has already netted more than $465 million.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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Already the film has snared more than $50 million in presales, Disney said Wednesday during the Goldman Sachs’ Communcacopia + Technology conference.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
With two outs and the bases loaded, Francisco Lindor snared a line drive by David Hamilton to keep the game tied.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

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