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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In addition, by using a technique called optical tweezer microrheology, they studied how the mechanical properties of the purified protein condensates changed over time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023
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
So I agree with Orzel that the failure to find a theory of quantum gravity would not generally impact the search for a better topological insulator or DNA tweezer.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 22, 2014
They should be carefully removed with a tweezer without crushing them by pulling gently and steadily near the mouth.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2013
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
