Thesaurus results for MOUSETRAPS

mousetraps 1 of 2

noun

plural of mousetrap

as in snares

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mousetraps

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mousetrap

as in traps

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Noun

Of the coyotes, for example, 15,000 nationwide were killed by neck snares, 5,500 with foothold traps and 182 with cyanide capsules.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Chase and Tee Higgins turn potential incompletions into 6-point snares.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of snares

Noun

In Congo, where the outbreak has spread to seven provinces, responders have faced attacks on health teams, misinformation about the virus, a failure by locals to report symptoms and rebel violence that has limited access to treatment centers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
The question also raised the recent spread of controversies over individual films into attacks on cast and crew and campaigns to halt screenings.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of attacks

Verb

Owen Michaels nets his second goal Michaels scored his second career NHL goal on his second shot.

— Janson Duench, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Apple's $1,699 starter model nets you a base-level M5 Pro processor (with a 15-core CPU and a 16-core GPU), 24GB of unified memory, and a 512GB solid-state drive.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of nets

Noun

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

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