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hypodermics

noun

plural of hypodermic

as in needles

a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin he hardly felt it when the nurse stuck the hypodermic in his arm

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needles

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The short, prickly needles make junipers unattractive to deer, unlike, for example, deer-magnet arborvitaes.

— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
While published literature on the math of literally looking for needles in actual stacks of hay are thin on the ground, the principles of such a search lie in an area of math called probabilities.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2026

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