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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
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Examples
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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains how the CIA under both Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan "mousetrapped" the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan and then kept Soviet forces bogged down.
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Aided, abetted, and possibly mousetrapped by untold numbers of quantative analysts, "AKA" quants, many of whom are Chinese nationals, the financial services industry created thousands of new investment vehicles in uncharted waters.
Young Executives' Report: 1972 Declaration of War Against Family Farmers
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But next up was his budget director-designate, Leon Panetta, who mousetrapped the boss by reinforcing Kamarck: "She made my speech!"
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Fearful of getting mousetrapped again, Bush pulled back from the press and, to a certain degree, from the voters themselves in the summer and fall of 1999.
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Faure's face clearly showed that he did not like being mousetrapped.
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Another discussion I had with a friend of mine a long time ago I made the apperception, I said, "blacks have never been mousetrapped."
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I was thinking of how I got mousetrapped sneaking out of the last bar I was in.
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We opt battle only when we have our opponents mousetrapped.
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Those were the exact words used by Vice President Joe Biden in Israel on March 9, before he was mousetrapped.
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L'Affaire Biden - when the vice president was mousetrapped and humiliated when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem shortly after he arrived in Israel to reaffirm U.S. solidarity with Israel - was dismissed as a mere "spat" by the neoconservative
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