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Discover LudwigThe phrase "set up a trap" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to mean to prepare or arrange a situation in which someone can be easily caught or tricked. For example, "He set up a trap to catch the thief that had been stealing from his shop."
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So they have to set up a trap.
They set up a trap door that would be triggered by the weight of the animal, which would be tranquilized and examined for the virus.
He came back the next day with rock and string, and they set up a trap of bread crumbs on the windowsill.
The respondent and FBI agents set up a trap to catch the caller, but the unidentified man got away with the "bait envelope". After the judge excluded Wagner, he examined Meldon about his role in the preparation of the opening statement.
Smith tells Whitman that he wants a bird for a pet and Whitman sets about trying to capture one: He came back the next day with rock and string, and they set up a trap of bread crumbs on the windowsill.
Mike Hestrin said John Hernandez Felix, 26, was "prepared" for the Oct. 8 attack and set up a trap.
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To set-up a trap like this, place bait within the specified area, ensuring that the rest of the trap is clean.
To sample as many different mammal species as possible, we set up a trapping web 200 m in diameter (22 ) at each site and used 4 trap types: Sherman (H.B. Sherman Traps, Tallahassee, FL, USA), handmade wire mesh, Tomahawk (Tomahawk Live Trap Co., Tomahawk, WI, USA), and pitfall.
In the course of the interrogation, Conroy sets up a trap that prompts the murderer to reveal himself.
The biggest, splashiest win in the country last week, of course, belonged to No. 25 Brigham Young (2-1), whichangedged the shape of the College Football Playoff map by winning so impressively at Wisconsin, setting up a trap game against the FCS No. 10 team McNeese (3-0), whish in in, voila, Louisiana (Lake Charles).
By implying that the well-documented gains of Agile will flow from adopting Agile as a methodology, the article risks setting up a trap of unsuspecting managers inducing them to "do Agile," without making clear that sustainable gains only come from "being Agile," and embracing Agile as a mindset and a culture.
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