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scissors

noun as in cutting instrument

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To explore PDAP1's role in hepatitis A and the integrated stress response, the research team first "knocked out," or removed, PDAP1 from cultured liver cells using a molecular pair of "scissors" called CRISPR-Cas9.

Ms Carberry KC asked him: “Do you remember cutting her clothes with scissors?”

From BBC

I use kitchen scissors to cut the oysters at least in half before adding them to the soup.

From Salon

“They didn’t even have basic supplies, like the scissors you would use to cut an umbilical cord. They were using a razor blade, you know?”

From Salon

They opened the sealed drums using a pair of scissors, upon which a rain of banknotes fell out.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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