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shaver

[shay-ver] / ˈʃeɪ vər /




NOUN
razor
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The candles retail between $42 to $50 for a pair, and recently, she developed a handsome pewter candle shaver that will be released in the winter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

He died a week ago for want of $500 to make a $5,000 bond, held as a recidivist for allegedly shoplifting a $24 pair of pants and a $20 electric shaver from Walmart in July.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

After watching someone tinker with an electric shaver, for instance, the A.I. must explain why the shaver did not turn on.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

Although they don’t give as close of a shave, “using an electric shaver is ideal if you want a clean-shaven appearance rather than a baby-smooth face,” he says.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023

It's so obvious that I mustn't touch his shaver, he's never even told me not to.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025

Inside old laptops, electric toothbrushes and shavers is a trove including steel, aluminium, copper, lithium batteries and even gold.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024

Hurly is a fan of men’s electric shavers, which cover more terrain than a blade because of their wider head.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023

Fabric shavers make your fabric look new again by gently removing lint.

From Fox News ● Mar. 24, 2022

But this, the only resource which the government could command with certainty, the States have unfortunately fooled away, nay corruptly alienated to swindlers and shavers, under the cover of private banks.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph




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