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entrapment as in: claimed legal entrapment
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She was acquitted on an entrapment defense.
entrapment = lured into wrongdoing by authorities
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The defense argued that the police used entrapment to get her to commit the crime.
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The undercover agent was accused of trying to entrap the suspect by repeatedly pressuring her to commit a crime she otherwise wouldn’t have considered.entrap = lure into wrongdoing by authorities
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We discussed this problem of character assassination and entrapment with Dr. King and Dick Gregory and Whitney Young and other men active in civil rights. (source)entrapment = being lured into wrongdoing
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They were entrapped in an educational system that told them exactly what to do and exactly how to do it, but sparks of individuality shone through.† (source)
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Or how those hands, which could set the most intricate of snares, could as easily entrap me.† (source)
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A troop of baboons ran with arched tails flying as they zigzagged, not yet understanding their entrapment.† (source)
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Lycurgus killed him, not in fair fight, but by entrapping him in a narrow way where his mace served him in no stead; for Lycurgus was too quick for him and speared him through the middle, so he fell to earth on his back.† (source)
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But when effects stretch so far she should not go and do that which entraps a man if he is honest, or herself if he is otherwise.† (source)
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Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.† (source)
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Lyopidus cried out in his fear that it had been the Sky that drove him to entrap his brother, and he called on the Sky to protect him, but there was no answer.† (source)
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The caverns had multiple entrances and exits to avoid entrapment.† (source)
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'You villain,' said I, 'what do you mean by entrapping me into your schemes?† (source)
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On the rare occasions he was at the Hall, I tried to find excuses for declining work there, and when I could not afford to do so, endeavored to stay out of his line of sight and made sure I could never be entrapped into beingalone with him.† (source)
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entrapment as in: entrapment in a spider's web
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She realized too late that the job offer was a kind of entrapment, tying her to long hours with no real advancement.
entrapment = trap
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The insect was entrapped in the spider's web.entrapped = trapped
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The enemy, far from trying to repel him, welcomed him in, so he could be thoroughly entrapped before they destroyed him. (source)
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We trained them secretly, using codes, methods of transport, entrapment and killing-even weapons Command Saigon knew nothing about. (source)entrapment = trapping
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A feeling of marching through a great maze; a sense of entrapment mixed with mystery. (source)entrapment = being trapped
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The plunge into this pit I had avoided by the merest of accidents, I knew that surprise, or entrapment into torment, formed an important portion of all the grotesquerie of these dungeon deaths. (source)
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