mousetrap
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A bit like setting and later triggering a mousetrap.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
“They say they’re building a better mousetrap to handle more business without laying on additional cost, but you can’t really test that until the business comes,” Seidl said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
They were flawed individuals, but they had a crucial insight into how to build a better mousetrap.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023
"Wagner troops climbed into Bakhmut like rats into a mousetrap," Oleksander Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, told troops at the Bakhmut front this week.
From Reuters ● May 20, 2023
In one hole, he’d found only a tangle of leaves and berries, and in another, a mousetrap, which snapped on his thumb.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
The first tells of laying mousetraps, but that didn’t work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
But the gatekeepers of phony commercial solutions to existential violence — such as better helmets, no more effective than better mousetraps — want us to focus on only one aspect of football harm.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2023
Lay down a few mousetraps or use repellents that they are not fans of.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
The brother and sister pair have grown up knowing only how to evade mousetraps and enjoy nature channels on television.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
As Reynie made a mental note to tell Kate to look out for mousetraps, S.Q. ushered them from their room.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
“It’s not speculative stuff that is going to get mousetrapped by a new large language model release in a year.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen, 45, was not about to be mousetrapped.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Italians, they reported, were mousetrapped and divided into small units, became easy prey of Greek mountain infantry.
From Time Magazine Archive
He couldn't let Gramps take the mousetrapped anti-gerasone—but, if he warned Gramps about it, Gramps would certainly make life in the apartment, which was merely insufferable now, harrowing.
From The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut
