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The Romanian filmmaker’s stoic drama is designed to provoke viewers in opposite directions, snaring them in waiting traps and causing them to concede in agony, “You have a point!”

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

Fellow beekeeper Les Latham said the team used food traps to attract the insects before monitoring the direction and timing of their flights.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Among its advances is a structure known as a phononic cavity, which traps mechanical vibrations so they can interact more strongly with the electron spin inside a qubit.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

She estimates her organization has trapped, fixed and released 19,000 cats and the current rate of trapping is somewhere around 50 a week, 10 of which she traps herself.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

She wondered if he had been one of the culprits who had destroyed her traps.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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