entrapment
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She was an AI-generated face and voice being operated by a popular, male influencer, who specialises in the entrapment of paedophiles.
From BBC ● May 15, 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 owl needed treatment for soft tissue injuries incurred to its wing during its entrapment, the center explained in a subsequent post on X.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
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
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
