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

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

A man takes his daughter to a pop concert, only to discover when he arrives that the whole thing is a sting operation set up by the FBI to try and entrap a dangerous criminal.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024

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