entrap

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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

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

Ekon screwed his eyes shut as the usual images flooded him: thorned vines as thick as his arm, the roots of black trees rising from the soil like coiled serpents determined to entrap him.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray