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This week, Kieran goes in with the forceps and scalpel to shape Playboi Carti’s new 30-track behemoth, Music, into something closer to a perfect album.
March 19, 2025
Illustration by Chris Panicker.—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025 The concern here, of course, is that extended labor might necessitate more aggressive delivery methods, including the use of forceps, a vacuum, or even increase need for Caesarian section.—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025 Today, Gracias says, such screening can involve taking dozens of samples with forceps, in an effort to get good statistical coverage of the interior surface of the colon.—IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2015 The doctors successfully removed the dead tick using suction and forceps, and gave the woman a course of antibiotics to treat any possible infection, along with steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs to calm the inflammation.—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forceps
Word History
Etymology
Latin, tongs, perhaps from formus warm + capere to take — more at therm, heave entry 1
: an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon objects especially for delicate operations (as by surgeons, obstetricians, or dentists)
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