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Dave Wilton

11 Sep 2026 • 2 min read
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Photo of a hand holding a pair of tweezers that is picking up piece of ceramic

tweezers

23 October 2026 Tweezers are a pair small pincers, often used for plucking hairs or picking up small objects. The form tweezers, invariably spelled with an ‹s›, is a variation on an older, now obsolete noun tweeze, sometimes rendered as pair of tweezes. That word, in turn, is a variation
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