I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snare drum
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.
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It is also a sort of high-tech snare , with State Police as hunters and hundreds of hapless cabbies their sorry prey.
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It was in those rabbit-runs through the gorse that some of the local boys used to set snares.
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Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
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When going to the C section keep the snare going.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Boggs is one of three people snared in an ongoing federal investigation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it has failed to snare any major global accounts in several years.
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Attempts to snare even rabbits became dangerous forays.
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Coevolution can be seen as two parties snared in the web of mutual propaganda.
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For instance, the network has shelled out big bucks to snare Bill Cosby for a new sitcom in the fall.
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He added that attempts were being made to snare them by hanging nets between trees.
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Nielsen himself has snared a 15-pounder at San Pablo.
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This fallacy has snared philosophers from Plato to Leibniz and beyond, and it still snares many major physicists.