clippers

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Transporting passengers to the gold fields of California and racing to get the first spring tea from China to New York and London drove the rise of extreme clippers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Plant people are easy to buy for — and hard too — because the really die-hard gardeners usually want nothing more than their favorite battered clippers and an old table knife for weeding.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024

In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

The clippers buzzed and buzzed, and hair fell from Needles's head like ash.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds