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trapped

adjective as in caught in a trap

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Yet they are trapped in a never-ending labor shortage as skilled workers age out, and young people fail to take their place.

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It’s the reason so many student-loan borrowers find themselves trapped in cycles of deferment, forbearance or minimum payments that allow balances to balloon rather than shrink.

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Some Hamas fighters are trapped, the president continued, “waiting for me to give the word, ‘GO,’ for their lives to be quickly extinguished.”

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They had to carefully shift concrete and other debris to avoid accidental movements that could crush others still trapped.

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At least 13 people have been killed after an attack on one of the last remaining hospitals in el-Fasher, a Sudanese city trapped under siege.

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