tweezers
Americannoun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of tweezers
First recorded in 1645–55; plural of tweezer, equivalent to obsolete tweeze “case of surgical instruments” (aphetic form of earlier etweese, from French étuis, plural of étui, noun derivative of Old French étuier “to keep,” from Latin stūdiāre “to care for”) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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He used extra-long tweezers to place microgreens on a plate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
It has tweezers, whatever backgrounds I’m working with and cutting tools that are usually ballpoint pens that have run out of ink.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
Now, researchers have used virtual reality to test whether humans can feel embodiment -- the sense that something is part of one's body -- toward prosthetic "hands" that resemble a pair of tweezers.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
The scissors were found, as were the tweezers, in the drawer where the pliers are kept.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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