tweezer

noun

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

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This kit makes both jobs simple with tools for cleaning up to 15-foot vents with flexible rods, specialty brushes that fit inside lint traps, and tweezers to reach into all the nooks and crannies. — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 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 Doucette posted a video of someone using tweezers to remove something from his ear. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tweezer

Word History

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 1 Sep. 2026.

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