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The second night after we arranged this trap configuration, the male fish owl of the Faata River pair approached the enclosure and ate half the salmon inside before stumbling onto the noose carpet on the bank and engaging the trap transmitter.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that once you build it, they will come.

BofA says steer clear of so-called “value traps” like Mohawk Industries, KeyCorp, and Flowserve Corporation.

From Fortune

Kang and colleagues confirmed that 4VA can attract locusts in the real world by setting sticky traps baited with the pheromone.

NASA’s Spirit rover, for example, met its end after getting stuck in a sand trap on Mars in 2009.

But Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.

Do not fall into the trap of being swayed by political notion.

You now have a growing number of candidates and elected officials who can do that without having to fall into that trap.

By the time Sotloff was allowed to leave the border crossing, the trap was set.

In this way, the U.S. would avoid the trap of being viewed, once again, as the leader of an anti-Islamic crusade.

Sometimes the animal was caught in a trap which was nothing less than a hut of logs with a single entrance.

Haggard had disappeared with the celerity of a harlequin who jumps through a trap.

A patch of light fell clear on the side of the trap, and on Longcluse's ungloved hand as he leaned on it.

A trap-door had opened in the floor of his consciousness; his first, early love sheltered in his aching heart again.

But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.

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On this page you'll find 144 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trap, such as: ambush, bait, booby trap, device, net, and pitfall.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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