entrap

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

Occultists have learned that by deploying sound vibrations they can summon angels from the cosmic ether and entrap them on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Predator had been used in attempts to entrap at least 87 people, according to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

“Do you want me then,” said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, “to deceive and entrap you?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

This infinite circle of events and eventualities entraps us, so that within every facet of the fight over the company’s past and future ripples a sense of inevitability.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021

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

Their crevices are convenient hiding spots for the microscopic parasites to become entrapped, said Byron Chaves, a food-safety scientist and professor at Rutgers University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"It's very, very concerning when you have such a volume of people entering an area and could end up being entrapped by a wildfire," Mr McMullen said.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025

Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday that users of the Medline Bed Assist Bar can become entrapped within the bed rail or between the product and the side of a mattress.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

At the 2020 trial, Lindberg’s lawyers argued in part that he didn’t commit a crime and that he was entrapped by Causey’s participation with authorities.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Miss Woodhouse made the proper acquiescence; and finding that nothing more was to be entrapped from any communication of Mrs. Cole’s, turned to Frank Churchill.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

“It feels less entrapping than other social media does.”

From New York Times ● May 10, 2022

Nevertheless, the lies, deceptions and sudden strokes of honesty and performative goodwill have become so frequent as to be inseparable at this point, entrapping Sarah in a perpetual guessing game.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021

Entrap′ment, act of entrapping: the state of being entrapped: Entrap′per.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various