trapping

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City information officer Jay Pelayo told news agency AFP that the building's walls and scaffolding surrounding it had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Tents - particularly polyester tents - act like mini greenhouses trapping heat inside them, from your body and the sun.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The study shows that the singular dispersion equation produces narwhal-shaped wavefunctions capable of trapping light at remarkably small scales within lossless dielectric materials.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Relentless predator control—through poisoning, trapping and shooting, and high mesh fences that can hold back everything from a baby mouse to a pig—are the only hope for continued nesting of native seabirds on the islands.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Over the years, humans have endangered bandapats by trapping them and locking them in hush-hush science labs.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins