The phrase "avoid being trapped by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions to prevent oneself from falling into a difficult or undesirable situation.
Example: "To ensure a successful negotiation, it's important to avoid being trapped by emotional appeals from the other party."
Alternatives: "steer clear of being caught by" or "prevent falling into the trap of".
But we can try to avoid being trapped by how it gets interpreted, reinterpreted, and distorted.
They move away, as a precaution, to avoid being trapped by a predator.
Nichol believes that mineworkers ran forward, not to charge the police but to avoid being trapped by razor wire.
Fifty-thousand people have fled Aleppo in just the last few days to avoid being trapped by the regime coalition's siege and hundreds of thousands more are likely to follow after a Russian-enabled attack on the city of Aleppo begins.
Correction to this articleIN A commencement speech to students at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, advised his audience to avoid being trapped by dogma and to have the courage to follow their hearts and their intuition.
If the first half of Lambert's career was incendiary – "When you're young you feel like you have to prove a point, and you scream it if you have to" – the second half has been trying to avoid being trapped by her reputation.
Several configurations of the hCSO are shown to work efficiently in locating the global optimum, avoiding being trapped by the many local optima within the solution space.
He and Wai Lin, a Chinese spy on the same case, after avoiding being trapped in the sunk ship, are captured by Stamper and taken to the CMGN tower in Ho Chi Minh City, but soon escape and decide to both collaborate on the investigation.
The tendency of these subadult males to move north with the ice and switch from Antarctic shelf feeding to feeding pelagically in the pack ice within reach of open water, suggests that males approaching reproductive age tend to avoid the risk of being trapped by pack ice along the Antarctic coast, in the same way adult females do.
