tweezer

noun

twee·​zer ˈtwē-zər How to pronounce tweezer (audio)

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If spines are visible and accessible, they should be carefully removed using tweezers. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025 To remove it, don't use your bare hands — Johns Hopkins recommends using tweezers, pulling slowly without twisting or squeezing the tick. Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025 This isn't the Top Chef of yore, where tweezers and microgreens were a necessity. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2025 Polite suggestions morph into silent judgment before the awkward pressure builds to a point so fine not even tweezers could pull the thorny social situation out. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tweezer

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tweezer was in 1904

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“Tweezer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tweezer. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.

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