tweezers
noun
small pincers or nippers for plucking out hairs, extracting splinters, picking up small objects, etc.
tweezer
-
a variation of
tweezers.
Example Sentences
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Although optical tweezer arrays were developed largely for quantum computing, the researchers instead used the technology to investigate a fundamental question in physics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Onal-Urel doesn’t have the luxury to tinker obsessively with her food, like those tweezer chefs with the Michelin stars and the borage blossoms strategically placed on their plates, like diamonds set in a ring.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019
The beginning of the end of tweezer food?
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017
How would the tweezer "beak" do if the bird were eating nectar instead of seeds?
From Scientific American ● May 13, 2011
You cannot shield the banana from the box or the tweezer or the coil; the shield, too, is wiggling and radiating.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
