entrapment
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State law bars prosecuting people who erroneously end up on the rolls, and if the government later encourages them to vote, there’s an entrapment defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
For Kentridge, attachment to a great idea can lead to entrapment, closing your mind to other, unthought-of fertile ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
And some of them were entrapment, I would say.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
The hazards of entrapment and fire are both in the list that Awaab's Law should tackle in the social-rented sector.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
The entrapment occurs in three distinct phases, each of which has been explored earlier, but a brief review is useful here.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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City manager Bert Cunningham said the worst damage was east of the town, with as many as four entrapments reported.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
The decades-old trail of paperwork warning about elevator entrapments first came to light in 2001 with a boy’s death in an Otis elevator in Bethel, Maine.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019
In a few cases, the changes might seem more stringent, but the intent is actually to avoid penalty entrapments.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 13, 2017
The towns, in Boone’s eyes as in those of many of the Borderer settlers, were rife with legal entrapments and predatory businessmen.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2016
These ice entrapments are a short-term boon for the bears, giving them an easy source of fatty food they can just scoop out of a hole in the ice.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 4, 2015