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cotton bud

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noun

  1. a small stick with a cotton-wool tip used for cleaning the ears, applying make-up, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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His video clips show teeth and tongue and an approaching cotton bud.

From Reuters Sep. 30, 2022

Swab taken, she inserts the cotton bud with my sample into a tube for later testing.

From Seattle Times Feb. 9, 2022

“I went back around the outline with a cotton bud to manipulate the shape a little more to be more identical to the original work.”

From New York Times Feb. 9, 2022

A visit to his Instagram reveals that the musician had someone paint his tongue carefully with a cotton bud.

From BBC May 24, 2021

Once, when travelling at the South, I gathered a cotton bud; and would you believe it, in the course of three months it expanded to a perfect flower, and actually ripened its seeds?'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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