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What does entrapment mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being entrapped.
  2. (law) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
  3. (chemistry) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.
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I refer to a judge who's put himself at grave risk of blackmail, entrapment, compromise and hypocrisy.
The book she becomes an emblem of her feeling of entrapment in her marriage.
We get a shot of Ben staring into his fish tank, a recurring symbol that emphasizes Ben's feelings of entrapment and aloneness.
This disorder occurs because of median nerve entrapment distal to the elbow.
Three fourths of the deaths were caused by entrapment in the bed structure leading to suffocation or strangulation.
These rapidly became forays into entrapment of innocent people fingered by prison snitches trying to get their sentences reduced.

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