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Chip makers use it as a carrier gas to entrap and transport certain chemicals, transfer energy to chemical reactants and cool silicon wafers during production.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026

The document outlines the myriad ways the country’s security agents would try to surveil, entrap, compromise and recruit American visitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

England’s drops were poor, but Woakes expertly exploited the swing to entrap Mathews.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

It sent representatives to the West to entrap Russian exiles under the pretext of helping the resistance movement.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

“I don’t know if you are legit, crazy or trying to entrap me,” she wrote.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

When Perla rejects Ulises’ practiced advances, he enlists the aid of her put-upon niece, who longs to escape both her demanding aunt and the decaying mansion that entraps her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel said "you cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm's way."

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

Sterling’s performance art slowly becomes indistinguishable from the Kafkaesque legal system that entraps the performers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023

Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.

From Salon ● May 8, 2021

"Well, you said,…… there is not a single high-collared guy who with smooth face entraps innocent people……."

From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri

Cyclospora parasites often become entrapped in produce through contaminated water used to grow or wash it, so areas that come into contact with water are more likely to be affected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Thailand previously implemented similar measures on neighbouring Myanmar, which is also home to thriving scam networks that have entrapped thousands of foreigners.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

China has publicly sought to eradicate cyberscam operations in Laukkaing that have entrapped tens of thousands of Chinese nationals, who have been repatriated to China in recent weeks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

They’re not easily entrapped, these two, and who can blame them for keeping the fruits of their painstaking labor secret?

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2024

In the stomach, germs must also overcome other deadly barriers such as digestive enzymes, entrapping mucus and the ever-watchful immune system defenses.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2023

Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

In addition to entrapping fellow male cicadas, the infected males also go after female cicadas, UConn said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

Their words and their works are watched with the intent of entrapping them, as complained of in Psalm 17, 9 and elsewhere.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker