trap
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In “Trap Door” he sings about “a trap door in your heart and a button on your desk well-worn from being pressed.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
The just-quirky-girls-at-a-country-club mood does eventually turn darker, but the musical, like some other works of art about mental illness, often falls into the trap of romanticizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Researchers used the number of bees captured in each trap to calculate average bee density across the cemetery's approximately 6,000 square meters.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
She told MSPs the scheme was designed to help those stuck in a "rent trap", unable to save to buy a house due to high monthly payments.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Tying short pieces of string to the heads of the nails, I hung an apple to the underbrush above each trap.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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