ensnared

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Ensnared by her own convictions, she has resorted to dilatory tactics because she has belatedly realised the full weight of their burden.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2018

Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture In the early days of 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learned that it had an intruder.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2013

Campuses Ensnared by ‘Life of Deception’ By and There were, in hindsight, plenty of reasons for the admissions office at to be suspicious of Adam Wheeler.

From New York Times • May 19, 2010

Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer no.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ensnared by superstition, soon and late; As sign and portent, it on us doth wait— By fear unmanned, we take our stand alone; The portal creaks, and no one enters,—none.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno