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Recent Examples of mousetrap
Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 June 2025
For example, maybe the prompt instructs AGI to make a better mousetrap.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Noun
Has Jeremy Greene’s Ecco built a better mousetrap for finding streaming TV and movies?
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All of that seems to have been forgotten, though, in the rush to better mousetrap the category with extreme levels of brightness, unconventional form factors, solar charging, and other needless complication.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetrap
Noun
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But the trial quickly hit a snare Tuesday after the state brought Paul Yaras with the Illinois Department of Revenue to present expert testimony on the business owners’ tax returns.—
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The Rolling Stones were defined by the sound of Charlie Watts’s snare from their first public breakthrough.—
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At the landfill site dozens of rescuers scrambled overnight in search of people trapped.—
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How much is a trapping license in Kentucky?—
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Together, Halverson’s gritty voice and Forster’s full-bodied vocal capture the tensions between romance and ambition.—
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Washington’s rhetoric over a potential assault on the Danish territory has been given greater credence by its capture of Venezuela’s president, and European leaders are scrambling to respond.—
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Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.—
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Getting young people to trust and depend on the traffickers is part of entrapping them.—
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Never wear your lenses while asleep, either, since that can cause dryness, irritation, abrasions and entrapment of germs that can lead to serious infections.—
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Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn’t have the wherewithal to act alone.—
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An investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games has ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fix games as recently as last season, federal prosecutors said Thursday.—
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The ones announced Thursday arrived three months after federal prosecutors in New York charged 34 people after two investigations that ensnared Rozier, Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones.—
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Good's defenders – including city and state leaders – are calling what happened an unjustified attack; federal authorities say the agent was acting in self-defense.—
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In Kyiv, a CNN reporter said that the attack began around midnight, starting with multiple drone strikes on residential buildings.—
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Federal officials have said agents, including those part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are seeing increases in assaults and threats against them.—
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However, after his conviction on assault and harassment charges, Marvel dropped him from future projects.—
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“Mousetrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetrap. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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