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Recent Examples of entrapment
Washington’s great gift as a commander was in preserving the unity of his mostly untrained command, from the Siege of Boston, through the winter of Valley Forge, to the entrapment at Yorktown and the ultimate British surrender.
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Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Resilience in the face of entrapment and autonomy are balanced throughout the show with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and Romanian painter Corneliu Baba’s imagery in mind.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025
Hostile intelligence services are likely already at work trying to assess which Musk team members might be sloppy with their digital devices or vulnerable to entrapment or coercion.
—James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2025
Thursday marks a century since his entrapment, an incident that helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Resilience in the face of entrapment and autonomy are balanced throughout the show with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and Romanian painter Corneliu Baba’s imagery in mind.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025
Hostile intelligence services are likely already at work trying to assess which Musk team members might be sloppy with their digital devices or vulnerable to entrapment or coercion.
—James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2025
Thursday marks a century since his entrapment, an incident that helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrapment
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What makes quantum internet even safer is a phenomenon called entanglement.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The legacy of colonialism and Cold War entanglements that drew parts of the region into superpower rivalries and proxy wars left many Southeast Asian countries wary of aligning too closely with any one major power.—
Lynn Kuok,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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For many in attendance, the commemoration has new meaning amid federal immigration enforcement targeting immigrant communities, including the risk of arrest at a place of worship.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, an organization formed during last school year’s campus protests, has reviled both activists on social media and questioned public sympathy for them in the aftermath of their arrests.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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The gains reflect a wet early winter and improved snowmelt capture, even as drought has crept back into parts of southern California.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay, Pete Kelsey — a technologist specializing in 3D data capture — was called in to help save the site for future generations.—
Louise McLoughlin,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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Some cities and retailers banned plastic straws, and a few states imposed restrictions.—
Hiroko Tabuchi,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Judges have recently blocked or suspended efforts by the Trump administration to ban transgender people from the military, abolish the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and to place restrictions on birthright citizenship.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Entrapment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrapment. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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