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nails

  • plural
    of nail.
    nail
    noun
    a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • present tense form
    of nail (3rd person singular).
    nail
    noun
    a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.

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"Everyone knows I love a bit of glam and I love my nails."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

At a third factory, housed in renovated Cold War-era buildings in a forest populated with deer, women with long painted nails assemble tiny components for igniters, which trigger the guncotton in the propellant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“He’s as tough as nails and he is more pissed off than anything that he was the only one that stood up to Magneto. He’s disappointed,” says Dodd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Equity may be comfortable for now — but debt is a bed of nails.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

But before I could more get dirt under my nails, I heard her calling to me as she had done four years ago, hiding in my family’s store, risking her life, even then, for us.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman