traps

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To avoid yield traps we also looked for names whose quarterly dividend payments ate up no more than 75% of their earnings.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

This time last year, surveillance traps had single-digit counts of black flies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Market hunters used shotguns, nets and traps to fill traincars with passenger pigeons—as well as robins, woodpeckers, blackbirds and orioles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Almost 7,000 handmade rat bait traps were set every 250m across the island in 2024.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

When I got to the river all the traps were full.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo