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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
In their flight they frequently twist about with extreme swiftness, managing, with their projecting lower mandible, to plough up small fish, which they retain in the lower half of their scissor-like bills.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
