trap

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“Or is there a very popular song called ‘There’s a Trap Door in Your Heart,’ and now I’m just rewriting it?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Trump also responded to a comment by Xi referring to the "Thucydides Trap," a political theory that war becomes more likely when a rising new power competes with an established great power.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed Tuesday’s vote with Madiba Dennie, deputy editor of Balls and Strikes and author of The Originalism Trap.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

The game was developed by Marvin Glass & Associates, a Chicago toy-design firm whose other hits included Simon, Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Operation and Mouse Trap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

In 1971 it was decided that one of the four microbiology experiments must be removed, and the Wolf Trap was off-loaded.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan