entrap

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Learning from troops in Ukraine, Israeli forces have begun covering their positions with netting to entrap and tangle the tiny drones.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

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

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

From Seattle Times • May 2, 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