mousetrapping

verb

present participle of mousetrap
as in trapping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetrapping
  1. trapping
  2. capturing
  3. entrapping
  4. netting
  5. ensnaring
  6. snaring
  7. hunting
Verb
  • Severe king tide flooding is covering street after street across several Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods, trapping residents in their homes and raising water levels by six inches above previous king tides.
    — Joan Murray, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The 18-story building collapsed Friday in a busy commercial street of the capital Nairobi, trapping construction workers and people reportedly inside shops on the ground and basement floors that had been illegally occupied.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of trapping
Verb
  • Developed by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, the system, called Fast Feature Field (F³), processes information from event cameras, which detect changes in light rather than capturing conventional images.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The latest season, currently being aired, depicts a fictional Chinese intelligence agency capturing and torturing some of the Japanese spies.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of capturing
Verb
  • One fascination of this brave book—brave in its disclosures but more so in its demands, its spiritual rigor, and its ardent intellectualism—lies in watching the eloquent, intelligent sufferer steadily entrapping herself.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Democrats called the hearing a politically motivated attempt at entrapping Fauci and praised the scientist for his work during the pandemic.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 29 July 2026
Definition of entrapping
Verb
  • Fear not, netting surrounding the exhibit will keep errant drones from slamming into unwitting museum visitors.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The company generated $260 million in revenue in the first half of 2026, up 15% year-on-year, while netting $18 million in profit.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of netting
Verb
  • From SiriusXM to gym memberships to streaming services, automatic rollovers are ensnaring consumers into subscriptions all across the economy.
    — Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • But Musk’s particular vulnerability now extends far beyond the boardroom, potentially ensnaring millions of mom-and-pop investors now exposed to one or both companies through index funds.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of ensnaring
Verb
  • Dropping it onto likely pools without snaring the riverside vegetation required maximum focus.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • First baseman Michael Busch finished the play by reaching out and snaring Hoerner’s dazzling throw to complete the highlight and nab the speedy Salazar for the out.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Definition of snaring
Verb
  • Sources had told me in September that OpenAI and Anthropic have been hunting for smaller AI data center deals.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Teams were handed a number to beat and went hunting for the lowest rate available.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of hunting
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