The police sectioned off a 20-mile radius of the city in hopes of trapping the suspect.
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Trapping
//ˈtɹæpɪŋ//
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Sedimentary rock contains fossils because it was built up layer upon layer, often trapping and preserving animals, plants, footprints, and more within the layers of sediment.
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Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield, blocking and trapping charged particles — or radiation — from the sun.
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The Jews who are doing well in America have largely shed every last trapping of Jewishness for assimilation into goy culture.
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