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Recent Examples of mousetrap
Noun
Trump should bring down the guillotine on crony capitalism in favor of the Thomas Edisons who build a better mousetrap in a free enterprise landscape.—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024 But if their previous pictures felt like ornate, twisted little mousetraps, The Devil’s Bath feels less precise, more cosmic.—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 June 2024
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 See All Example Sentences for mousetrap
His roles also involve advising on business case development, value capture, new financing, refinancing and restructuring of funding positions in corporate and infrastructure projects.
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Michael Flynn,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Another striking capture: stylist Julia-Sarr Jamois who wore a tan trench coat with a grey mock neck sweater.
Gabi and Robinson head to the diner to entrap Maggie with yet another plate of cheese fries.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
In the initial announcement about the plan to vacate the convictions of felons entrapped by crack-selling stings in Broward County, the convicts were told not to contact the State Attorney's Office or the Broward Sheriff's Office.
The family of shows ensnared plenty of big names throughout their air, including Gary Busey, Omarosa, LaToya Jackson and Lisa Rinna.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
10 Mar. 2025
Microsoft’s center of gravity in corporate software ultimately ensnared Skype, which found itself in the Office division and under orders to build tools geared toward a workplace audience as well as a consumer one.
Hamas started the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack that left 1,200 dead in Israel, mostly civilians, and took some 250 hostage.
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Samy Magdy and David Rising,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
But in light of ongoing attacks against PayPal accounts using emails sent from genuine PayPal addresses, how will this help protect you from hackers and scammers?
Beijing has also softened its regulatory assault on Chinese technology companies and the property sector.
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Jacky Wong,
WSJ,
6 Feb. 2023
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.
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