cotton bud
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Samsung, which is the biggest maker of Android phones, recommends using a cotton bud to get moisture out of the earphone jack and charging port.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024
His video clips show teeth and tongue and an approaching cotton bud.
From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2022
“I went back around the outline with a cotton bud to manipulate the shape a little more to be more identical to the original work.”
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022
A visit to his Instagram reveals that the musician had someone paint his tongue carefully with a cotton bud.
From BBC • May 24, 2021
Once, when travelling at the South, I gathered a cotton bud; and would you believe it, in the course of three months it expanded to a perfect flower, and actually ripened its seeds?'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
