mousetrapping

Definition of mousetrappingnext
present participle of mousetrap

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Verb
  • The plant provides habitat for fish, crabs and plankton, feeds migratory birds and locks away carbon and methane — both heat-trapping greenhouse gases — in coastal sediments.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Like all black holes, primordial black holes have mass and thus interact with gravity and are effectively invisible due to the fact that they are bounded by a light-trapping surface called an event horizon.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • If successful, it could be adapted to other nanomaterials and biomass structures, giving rise to a new generation of solar power systems capable of capturing, storing, and managing energy on their own.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Five of Orion’s six windows had live-streaming video cameras capturing the lunar flyby.
    Jennifer Levasseur, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The vehicle caught on fire, entrapping the boy, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
    Michael Guise, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Getting young people to trust and depend on the traffickers is part of entrapping them.
    Anne P. DePrince, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Suarez lashed seven shots towards goal on his debut against Casa Pia, going closest after a stomping run in-behind the defence and a sharp shot into the side netting.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Outside of YouTube, Mama Bee worked in pharmaceuticals, and Papa Bee worked in market research, both netting six-figure salaries.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And in that quest for unbridled growth, the AI industry has wrested ungodly amounts of capital from investors all looking for the next big thing, ensnaring the entire economy.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The upcoming April 7 vote over the renewal of Kansas City’s 1% earnings tax will mark one of the biggest tests of whether that opposition could risk ensnaring a critical resource for the city.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Pickens was even more dominant, snaring nine balls for 144 yards and a score.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2025
  • At least Cochrane was familiar with the feeling of snaring an interception.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Considering that gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein in 1915 and the first successful detection was only made 100 years later in 2015, hunting these ripples in spacetime has always been a waiting game requiring a lot of patience.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Glenn has been hunting snakes for 25 years.
    Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Mousetrapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetrapping. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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