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Officials said that "multiple people are dead" and that there are "multiple entrapments, and multiple injuries".

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Protagonist Lena escapes patriarchal entrapment by joining forces with a close friend, Hedy, and fleeing to a beachside encampment of “feral” women.

For Kentridge, attachment to a great idea can lead to entrapment, closing your mind to other, unthought-of fertile ideas.

Themes of entrapment, unrequited love and loss penetrate the screen, with Lachman conveying the narrative through a bespoke aesthetic captured on different celluloid formats.

Bob Fu, founder and president of China Aid, argued that Lin’s conviction was a case of entrapment by the Chinese government.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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