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Remove any bones by pulling them at a 45 degree angle toward the head with clean tweezers. Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026 Bell specifically calls out Tweezerman tweezers as one of her reliable gifts. Brooke Knappenberger, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 The other approach uses arrays of tightly focused laser beams, called optical tweezers, to trap neutral atoms. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026 Held by a pair of tweezers, one of thousands of mosquitos trapped by Los Angeles County Vector Control officers at their lab in Lakewood where they are catagorized and shipped to a lab at UC Davis to be tested for West Nile Virus on 07/27/2004. Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tweezer

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First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

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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 20 Sep. 2026.

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