ENTRAPMENTS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

entrapments

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as in entanglements

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Noun

Nearly 27% of 2025 entanglements were observed off the coast of California.

— Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
This luxurious adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel East of Eden, which tracks the dramatic entanglements of the Trask and Hamilton families in California's Salinas Valley, stars Florence Pugh, one of our favorite actresses right now.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

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Child Passenger Safety Week highlights best practices for choosing car seats and restraints for young children.

— Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2026
Due to the ongoing construction and current facility restraints, Belmont Park will only operate with a capacity of 6,000 during opening weekend and 4,000 after.

— John Dias, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

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Moreover, that $100 million plus projection captures just the store-level opportunity and excludes upside from Hoka’s nationwide online availability on Academy’s website, Matuszewski said.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Someone who knew MacDonald took screen captures of the videos, according to the complaint, and flagged them to authorities.

— Luke Barr, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of captures

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Police had found a large quantity of gasoline inside three of the five vans seized during last Sunday’s arrests.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
Since last year, on the President’s orders, the department has pursued some sixteen hundred voter-fraud cases, only a hundred and sixty of which even led to arrests.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrests

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In August, Beijing announced new restrictions on developers' ability to sell unfinished properties.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Others have called for restrictions on data centers, such as requiring that their energy consumption does not add to others’ utility bills.

— Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026

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