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mousetrap

[mous-trap] / ˈmaʊsˌtræp /
















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“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

"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

“It’s not incentivizing them to go out there and try to find somebody who’s built a better mousetrap and can generate power more cheaply,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

He had supposedly built a better mousetrap, and the world had indeed beaten a path to his door.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

What if there’s a mousetrap back there, or, or….

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix