Examples of snare

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The strength of these snares is, therefore, markedly increased.
On the way home he checked his traps for rabbits and quickly repaired a couple of torn snares.
The pulmonary arteries were circled and snared down after institution of cardiopulmonary by-pass, to promote prograde blood flow into the anomalous right coronary artery.
The handover operation starts when the three snaring cables inside the end effector cylinder catch the grapple fixture probe.
Nevertheless, time has exposed both flaws and snares in the analysis.
One might object that this definition allows too much as pain, and thus falls foul of one of the snares awaiting behaviourism.
Such snares can compromise the ability to make a successful transition to adulthood, impair health, and lead to social disadvantage.
Clearly, these elements belong to different orders of explanation and each has peculiar snares.
Just like humans, they go hunting erect snares and traps in the jungle.
Other techniques used include the atlatl, snares, slingstones, and nets.
He was such an accomplished illusionist that no less than a rather attentive reading of the work is necessary if we wish to avoid the seductive snares of his prose.
Consumables included, for example, bowel preparation, gloves, paper mats, polypectomy snares, biopsies (required for around 27% of examinations) and administrative requisites, such as stationery, postage, and telephone charges.
He asserts that society tends to bond itself to vast, counterproductive assumptions about how the world operates; it is through the escape of these mental snares that humans move forward.
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