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as in tangling
to catch or hold as if in a net
an ambitious young man who was now trapped in a series of shady business deals
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as in grabbing
to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly
finally trapped the annoying fly in the palm of his hand
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Recent Examples of trapping
While the 23-year-old was working in the trench, the trench collapsed, trapping him for a short while.
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Dejanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
2 July 2026
Ventless hoods don't have ductwork and include a charcoal filter for trapping smoke and odors so that air can be recirculated.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Vorobyov also said a six-month-old baby died on Tuesday after a drone crashed into a home in Yegoryevsk, southeast of Moscow, trapping people under rubble.
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Kosta Gak,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
The wildfire exploded in size over the weekend, trapping five firefighters responding to a smaller fire in Colorado and killing three of them.
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Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
30 June 2026
The extreme temperatures are being caused by a heat dome – an area of high pressure that acts like a lid, trapping hot air.
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Scott Neuman,
NPR,
30 June 2026
Trends in recent decades point to an overall warming of average temperatures in winter as well as fall, spring and summer, from human activities such as fossil-fuel burning that release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
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Evgenia Anastasakos,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2026
The accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are heating the planet at a rapid rate.
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Simmone Shah,
Time,
29 June 2026
The funds would come from the Commodity Credit Corporation, a funding initiative through the federal agency, and would go toward tracing, surveying and trapping response programs for the next three years.
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Lizzie Kane,
Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
Dejanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
2 July 2026
Ventless hoods don't have ductwork and include a charcoal filter for trapping smoke and odors so that air can be recirculated.
—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Vorobyov also said a six-month-old baby died on Tuesday after a drone crashed into a home in Yegoryevsk, southeast of Moscow, trapping people under rubble.
—
Kosta Gak,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
The wildfire exploded in size over the weekend, trapping five firefighters responding to a smaller fire in Colorado and killing three of them.
—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
30 June 2026
The extreme temperatures are being caused by a heat dome – an area of high pressure that acts like a lid, trapping hot air.
—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
30 June 2026
Trends in recent decades point to an overall warming of average temperatures in winter as well as fall, spring and summer, from human activities such as fossil-fuel burning that release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
—
Evgenia Anastasakos,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2026
The accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are heating the planet at a rapid rate.
—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
29 June 2026
The funds would come from the Commodity Credit Corporation, a funding initiative through the federal agency, and would go toward tracing, surveying and trapping response programs for the next three years.
—
Lizzie Kane,
Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trapping
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Its rear zipper pocket is a great way to keep charging cords from tangling around other items.
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Recently, researchers in Germany developed a chain-launching drone interceptor that disables UAVs by tangling their spinning rotors midair.
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Americans are grabbing their passports and fleeing the country in hopes of leaving the nation’s problems behind.
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Swanson argues those behind-the-scenes improvements have done more to modernize logistics than many of the industry’s headline-grabbing automation projects.
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Another one of the Tates’ lawyers filed a claim on Fisher’s behalf, accusing Hadley of entrapping him.
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This might not be a circumstance where the AI would shine in aiding the mental health of the user (or, on the other side of the coin, deluding them and entrapping them).
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But this year, the city is catching a little guff over an apparent oversight.
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And that job is made all the more difficult when catching for two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who holds himself and his teammates to very high standards.
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First baseman Michael Busch finished the play by reaching out and snaring Hoerner’s dazzling throw to complete the highlight and nab the speedy Salazar for the out.
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Pickens was even more dominant, snaring nine balls for 144 yards and a score.
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Heim, the 2024 truck series champion who will move full time into Cup next season with 23XI Racing, led the final three laps after snatching first from teammate Tyler Reddick.
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Two balls, two strikes and the Vibe on the verge of snatching back some momentum.
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And in that quest for unbridled growth, the AI industry has wrested ungodly amounts of capital from investors all looking for the next big thing, ensnaring the entire economy.
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The upcoming April 7 vote over the renewal of Kansas City’s 1% earnings tax will mark one of the biggest tests of whether that opposition could risk ensnaring a critical resource for the city.
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The first, Fluid Lensing, is a custom algorithm that removes wave distortion in real time, capturing crystal-clear, high-resolution images of the seafloor.
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Underground, buried fiber-optic cables can sense movement, capturing data that are also then analyzed by AI.
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