gotcha

Example Sentences

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It’s only when Hansen starts speaking for victims that Osit reveals his own traumatic history, an exchange that might come off as a gotcha, but I think is more complicated than that.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

“This convening, for too many people across America in education, feels like the ultimate gotcha moment,” David C. Banks, the New York City schools chancellor, said toward the hearing’s end.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

Why bother still bringing up someone’s nepo-ness whenever their name is mentioned, with both the mic-drop confidence of a gotcha and the rote formality of a gesundheit?

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2024

That's not a trick question or a gotcha.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2023

He gives me a gotcha look, then reaches into his front jeans pocket and pulls out a chipped conch-shaped shell.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson