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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
entrap .
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Examples
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The first step will be cutting the red tape that entraps businesses across the nation.
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It's a volcanic ash that encapsulates and entraps oil; it was given its nickname by a truck dealer who uses it to soak up oil spills in his garage.
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The way money works today entraps us in delusional thinking about each other's inherent worth based on inherited surface traits.
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Kevin's and Jeannie's stories were as snarled and entangled as any ten fictional characters' and the story that entraps all of us reaches, just as far as I can trace it myself, from the Spanish Flu epidemic to two generations past mine.
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From what little I could make out, the Napoleon-era plot revolves around a jealous husband who invites his flirty wife and her admirers to a lavish dinner, then entraps and tortures the party with shadow plays and lots of bug-eyed gestures.
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The way money works today entraps us in delusional thinking about each other's inherent worth based on inherited surface traits.
David Vognar: Opening Peace and Justice Through Economic Transparency
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From what little I could make out, the Napoleon-era plot revolves around a jealous husband who invites his flirty wife and her admirers to a lavish dinner, then entraps and tortures the party with shadow plays and lots of bug-eyed gestures.
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It displaces thousands of Palestinian families, entraps all Palestinians in the West Bank, steals their land and resources, and has nothing to do with security.
Printing: How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall
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It notoriously targets the vulnerable, entraps them with paid informants, inflates bogus charges, spreads them maliciously through the media, then intimidates juries to convict and sentence innocent men and some women to long prison terms.
FBI Kills Islamic Cleric, Arrests Followers, for Being Muslims at the Wrong Time in America
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It displaces thousands of Palestinian families, entraps all Palestinians in the West Bank, steals their land and resources, and has nothing to do with security.
How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall
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