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trip wire

noun

Definition of trip wire

as in land mine

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Recent Examples of trip wire With Partridge taking over and Notre Dame adding Brewu, Keeley and Gray through the transfer portal, a position group that felt like a trip wire one month ago now looks more like a launching pad. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026 It was set up with a pulley system and a trip wire that would fire the crossbow when a deer’s leg tripped it. — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025 Having some European forces on the ground as trip wires, building up economic integration. — NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 Voters have ideas Lawmakers are back in the Capitol this week with big ambitions, a messy calendar and a thousand potential trip wires, especially among Republicans who call the shots. — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trip wire

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In August 2015, another spate of land mine blasts that maimed two South Korean soldiers and sharply raised tensions between the Koreas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
His Minderoo Foundation—named for the cattle ranch of his childhood—has since given about $28 million to Ukraine’s schools and agricultural projects, and to clearing land mines.

— Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of land mine

Noun

But the arguable highlight of the style appears at its mudguard and heel, which have been covered in a spider web graphic.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2026
So Sayegh rang her web hosting company to ask what had happened, only to be told surging ticket demand had crashed their servers.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026

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Chase and Tee Higgins turn potential incompletions into 6-point snares.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Video from Citizen App showed another person trying to keep the pit bull away and then a police officer restraining the dog with a snare pole, leading it away as first responders attended to the victim.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of snare

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In the meantime, his insatiable paranoia will be exacerbated by the missing family cat, and his decision to let the alarm company booby trap the house with fog bombs will literally blow up in his face.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Before this dilemma can play out, Hal triggers an Indiana Jones–esque booby trap inside the compound’s stronghold, summoning Macon’s men with their advanced weaponry.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of booby trap

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