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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetraps
Verb
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In contrast, focusing on weaknesses traps people in a cycle of fixing deficiencies; over time, this limits performance by missing opportunities to generate truly forward-looking solutions.—
Gamze Acar Bayraktaroglu,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025 -
The utility has a fraught history with the California Coastal Commission, whose former senior scientist dubbed Diablo Canyon California’s largest marine predator because its intake system traps copious ocean larvae.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Despite the downward pressure on cost of cyber attacks, the sector continues to grow, as more companies treat cyber security incidents as a top priority.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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This prevents many attacks that use lookalike domain names or hacks such as DNS cache poisoning to create rogue sites masquerading as the real, trusted ones.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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For Kappahl, Hedin continued, staying within a consistent style—rather than trend chasing—nets a greater intersectional gain.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Sep. 2025
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Nothing that nets to any new hirings given the federal government wipeout, the decline and fall of Biden’s pet projects, and the creation of meager health-care jobs and some small AI data center construction.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The hour-long audio recording captures dispatchers, police officers and other first responders coordinating a large-scale emergency response after gunfire erupted during a morning church service.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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This year, our rolling average captures retention rates in 2023, 2022 and 2021—the period when students returned to campuses after the Covid-19 shutdowns in 2020.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Mousetraps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetraps. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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