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Using a tenaculum, a scissor-like surgical tool, the physician steadies the cervix.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
A few years ago, Dr. Segerman demonstrated Extensors: a construction kit for making extending mechanisms from scissor-like hinged parts.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
Four sat stubbornly on the pathway I wanted to move along, their icy-blue eyes pitiless and their long, white necks stretched toward me, threatening with their scissor-like bills.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
Then he gives a more revealing explanation: “They’re an animal of duality. They’re adorable but they terrify me at the same time. And they got those scissor-like ears that creep me out.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2019
Each ant was working away at a leaf, cutting out a circle with its sharp scissor-like jaws.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by William H. C. Groome
