mousetrap
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Even so, why did a firm focused more on building a better mousetrap than stock picking dump a whopping $1 billion in GameStop for possibly its biggest single score ever?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
A bit like setting and later triggering a mousetrap.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
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
He just lifted the box and pulled the spring mechanism of the mousetrap back until it clicked into place again.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
The first tells of laying mousetraps, but that didn’t work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
“They have built one of the most complex mousetraps in the world,” Mr. Brunson said.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
Local volunteers pitched in to help build the contraptions, which are triggered by mousetraps and fashioned out of PVC pipe and chicken wire.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
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
We did not have any mousetraps or rat poison in the house, and my mother had not been up to anything suspicious during the night.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
“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
Last week, mousetrapped by George McGovern, whom he admires, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker performed a manful act.
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
Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen, 45, was not about to be mousetrapped.
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
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