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In recent years, scientists have learned shrimp colonies are constantly at war: Males with extra-large pincers patrol the colony's perimeter like soldiers on guard duty, protecting the egg-laying queens.
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The researchers turned their attention to the pupae, which have defensive sets of miniature pincers along their abdomens.
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The entire closure process is controlled by a small collection of panels where the two arms of the pincer meet; changes there simply propagate down the arms.
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Soft grippers, which are typically controlled by changes in air pressure, can cram and wiggle into hard-to-reach places that would otherwise be inaccessible to hard pincers.
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The team discovered that in snapping shrimp colonies with just one queen, that queen tends to lay more eggs and have a smaller pincer.
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Even the familiar tales in this book are gripping—wooden ships in the pincers of an ice floe, flickering oil lamps, thin air.
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So Wormwood this year got caught in a pincer that needs further exploration.
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The backdrop to the pincer move on Anbang and its founder Wu Xiaohui, who is to be prosecuted for alleged fraud, is a robust economy that’s giving officials the running room to crack down on debt excesses without depressing growth.
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PINCER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pincer for English Language Learners
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pincers : a small tool that is used for holding or gripping small objects
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: a claw of a lobster or crab and some insects
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