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booby-trapping

verb

present participle of booby-trap

as in mining

to place hidden explosive devices in or under booby-trapped the field bordering the army's camp

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One of the coolest things happening in hip-hop production right now is the way different isolated microscenes are mining the dance music of the Black diaspora.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
After mining the shops, escape to the country for hiking, biking, and the leafy riches of autumn.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 14 Oct. 2026

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In July, Brown pleaded guilty to a count of affray at London’s Southwark Crown Court for attacking a music producer with a tequila bottle on the head.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
The approval of Revolution Medicines’ pancreatic cancer drug Rasonque earlier this year showed that a medicine capable of attacking mutations in a group of genes called RAS could prolong survival for patients with the particularly aggressive cancer.

— Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026

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Russia has been bombing Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, forcing Ukraine to rely increasingly on river ports on the Danube and shipping routes close to the coasts of NATO members Bulgaria and Romania.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
The United States began bombing Iran on February 28 with the goal of destroying the country’s nuclear program, its missile program, and even its government, only to fail spectacularly at each objective.

— Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026

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