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Industrial robots have relied on pincerlike hands for decades, and Igor Kulakov, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based robot maker MicroFactory, says that is still the most cost-effective form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

Although Ichthyornis’s pincerlike beak was limited to the tip of its snout, it was likely used, like modern-day bird beaks, for precision tasks such as preening feathers and holding small objects.

From Scientific American • May 2, 2018

With its hind legs clutching grass or a leaf, the tick sits patiently, holding its pincerlike front legs extended, ready to latch onto an unsuspecting mammal that happens by.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2012

And then she grabs my elbow with her sharp pincerlike grasp and turns me around.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

His pincerlike fingers played with the jewel which Felicia had thrown down upon the table.

From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.