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a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized
he noticed the booby trap in the interviewer's question just a little too late
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Recent Examples of booby-trap
EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Get ready for a night of holiday mischief with everyone's favorite Christmas prankster — and without the booby traps.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
The trick, more often than not, is to present humorous solutions to palpable danger, like the time in Season Three when Jackson briefly made like Kevin in Home Alone in using household objects to booby trap a house against invading gunmen.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
Secondly, while a drone will fly over tripwires, pressure plates and other booby traps, the robot dog will set them off.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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Noun
The characters must navigate different booby traps and escape from one cube into another.
—EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Get ready for a night of holiday mischief with everyone's favorite Christmas prankster — and without the booby traps.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
The trick, more often than not, is to present humorous solutions to palpable danger, like the time in Season Three when Jackson briefly made like Kevin in Home Alone in using household objects to booby trap a house against invading gunmen.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
Secondly, while a drone will fly over tripwires, pressure plates and other booby traps, the robot dog will set them off.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for booby-trap
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Just two years prior, the NFL team had shelled out more than $1.4 million trying to get Becker elected mayor, and another roughly $1 million attacking Mayor Lisa Gillmor.Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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An investigation from DePaul University and the Chicago Police Department is underway after two Jewish students who were visibly showing their support for Israel were attacked on the university’s Lincoln Park campus.NBC Chicago, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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There are up to 200 other hibernation sites, like other mines, natural caves and railway tunnels, where small numbers of other cave-dwelling bats spend their winter.Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024
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Known for staging cinematic runway displays in spectacular locations including a lavender field, a salt mine and the Palace of Versailles, the brand posted revenues of 270 million euros in 2023, the spokeswoman said.Joelle Diderich, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
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With confetti colors and an appealing blocky design (buffered by rounded edges), these statement pieces are easy to clean and light enough to be moved from playroom to patio without a hitch.Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
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The album’s rollout went off without a hitch, a far cry from the days of long delays and false starts.Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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On May 8, 2023, shortly before dawn, Jordanian fighter jets bombed Ramthan’s family house.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Just look at the box office where stories with new characters like Madame Web and The Crow are bombing.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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The public saw and consumed her through these images: Diana sadly on a yacht with Dodi Fayed, Diana walking through a field with land mines, Diana in the backseat of a car in Paris.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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Business looks at the state of things on the Hill and in presidential politics and sees more land mines than viable immigration reforms to rally around.Eli Hager, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2024
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It is feared that inside some of the vehicles that were washed away or trapped in underground garages there could be bodies waiting to be recovered.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The View cohost and Oscar-winning actress delivered a vital message of information to Americans heading to the polls on Tuesday morning, capping a historic political cycle with a pearl of wisdom for those trapped in long lines at their local voting places.EW.com, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Injecting diamond particles into the atmosphere could provide the benefits of sulfur dioxide while curbing some of the risks, said a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.Devika Rao, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
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Satellite firms like SpaceX and other countries have envisioned operating tens of thousands of internet satellites in Earth’s low orbit, raising the risk of interference even more.Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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The unfortunate snag here: Gloria Dayton is also the victim.Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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Satisfy wanted to build an ultra-durable pair of shorts that could withstand ultramarathons through desert brambles and snags or forests dense with deadfall.Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Booby-trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booby-trap. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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