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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as a trap for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation or object that is intended to catch or ensnare someone or something.
Example: "The hunter set up the bait as a trap for unsuspecting animals in the forest."
Alternatives: "as a snare for" or "as a lure for".
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And once in the water, it acts as a trap for bugs.
But then a new wave of feminism attacked this cosy domesticity as a trap for women.
Back at the table, she resumed denouncing the insidiousness of marriage as a trap for free souls.
But proponents of the bans said they regarded that part of Wednesday's opinion as a trap for them.
He views austerity as a trap for the left "as long as they refuse to challenge it".
But many say they believe that "what began as a trap for Assad has become a trap for Barak himself," as one Western diplomat put it.
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This can be thought of as creating a "trap" for lineages that pass a threshold representing a point of no return.
Moffat would later bring Rory back in "The Pandorica Opens", though the episode reveals his consciousness was placed in a Roman centurion Auton as part of a trap for the Doctor to save the universe from the cracks.
We describe a raft designed to act both as a monitoring device and as a trap site for American mink, Mustela vison.
The TT eliminates this blight via a soothing expanse of leather and wood between steering wheel and passenger door, without so much as a trap door for a screen to emerge from to cloak the cabin in a garish blue glow.
This gene encodes a penicillin-binding protein 4 (PBP4) which functions as a trap target for β-lactams [ 32].
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