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Recent Examples of mousetrap
IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2012
All of this was done in consultation with the people who understood the problems best, putting faith in the expertise of top bureaucrats to build a better mousetrap.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Noun
Inventing the next great mousetrap is just the first step—now manufacture it!
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2012
All of this was done in consultation with the people who understood the problems best, putting faith in the expertise of top bureaucrats to build a better mousetrap.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mousetrap
Noun
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We all have been bedeviled at times by bureaucratic snafus (and snares), and so improvement is necessary.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This atmospheric river had been hovering over the Southeast for days, trapped by a strong high pressure system, before inching its way north.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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Here's What the Director Has Teased Jack Nicholson's Son Ray Channels Dad's Creepy Grin in 'Smile 2' However, this victory is revealed to be a hallucination; in reality, Rose remains trapped within the house, and the entity overpowers her.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Grace, an expert pickpocket, removes the thumb drive at the exact millisecond the Entity is trapped inside, allowing for the artificial intelligence's capture without triggering a nuclear war or destruction of cyberspace across Earth.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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The capture comes the same day a maintenance worker was arrested in connection with the case that has sparked a massive manhunt.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
Verb
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Most horror flicks entrap their characters in one location or put them in some sort of unique, tense situation (think: satanic possession, or pissing off the wrong truck driver, attracting the wrong person, etc.), but in Final Destination, Death works with the great mundane canvas of ordinary life.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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Early motherhood entraps them—and their children—in a bleak socioeconomic cycle that’s almost impossible to break.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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The dark, tight, narrow passageways of Floyd’s entrapment is defined and increased by its extreme contrast with the vast space above and beyond too.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Polish-born and Paris-based, Piotr Kamler is an experimental animator whose work explores temporal distortions and spatial paradoxes, conjuring here a slow-creeping sense of entrapment intensified by an unnerving soundscape—a clear antecedent to Barker’s nightmarish visions.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
Verb
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The book-burning incident appeared to be an unusual local manifestation of a simmering culture war over books reflecting diversity, one that has occasionally ensnared Jewish books and has lately been folded into the Trump administration’s push against diversity initiatives.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
20 May 2025
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The comments add to a growing web from the trial that has ensnared several big names in the music industry and Hollywood, including Michael B. Jordan and Kid Cudi.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
Noun
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But after the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the movie was retooled with a new finale before being released in theaters on June 21, 2002.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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The Pacers, behind an unrelenting uptempo attack and superior depth, have won the third and fourth quarters in both games, as well as overtime in Game 1.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
24 May 2025
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Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.—
Jacky Wong,
WSJ,
6 Feb. 2023
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Zelenskyy has warned for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault after about two months of virtual stalemate along the front line that stretches across the south and east.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
31 Jan. 2023
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“Mousetrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mousetrap. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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