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pliers

noun as in pincers

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Police said she was cited for carrying a pair of pliers as a burglary tool, resisting arrest and shoplifting before she was released.

Some of those remaining had deep gouging and scratches, which looked like marks left by pliers.

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But when officers arrived on the scene they learned that a man repeatedly struck another passenger in the chest with a pair of pliers while they were riding on the bus.

A mother used pliers to remove her six-year-old daughter's teeth as she could not get an appointment with an NHS dentist, an MP has said.

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With his pliers, the plumber twisted the inner workings of the lock.

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

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