nipper

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Recent Examples of nipper Drop the cuticle nippers and grab this fast-acting fast-acting remover solution from Sally Hansen instead. Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 9 Oct. 2024 The carnivorous Jurassic dinosaur would have been able to easily stand in the palm of your hand, a nipper that had fuzzy feathers as well as scales. Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024 Drop the cuticle nippers and grab this fast-acting cuticle remover solution from Sally Hansen instead. Sarah Han, Allure, 17 July 2024 There was no Power Bait in his vest, just Wheatly fly boxes and $40 nippers. Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024 Unlike a traditional manicure, which soaks the nail and uses a pusher and nipper to cut the cuticles, a Russian manicure uses almost exclusively electric file bits to groom your nails without water. India Espy-Jones, Essence, 30 Oct. 2023 Built with fly fishing enthusiasts in mind, the pack magnets hold flies and nippers, but this multifunctional hip pack can be used for any outdoor activity, whether hiking, canoeing, or camping. Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023 Your first instinct might be to grab the cuticle nippers and snip extremely dry skin around the nail or push the cuticles back, but your best move is to keep them moisturized and otherwise leave them alone. Sarah Madaus, SELF, 22 Mar. 2023 Only clip away any hangnails with a nipper. Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 15 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nipper
Noun
  • Rocky Gap participates in the Maryland Park Service's Scales & Tales education program for kids.
    Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Julie Andrews as Maria Andrews starred as Maria, the precocious and inspirational governess who helps the von Trapp kids learn to embrace music and family — and later becomes their stepmother.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities are investigating after a teenager was shot and killed around midnight Friday in the unincorporated Los Angeles County community of Willowbrook.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The Vatican considers the Italian teenager, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, as an inspiring role model for today's young Catholics.
    NICOLE WINFIELD AND SILVIA STELLACCI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Ford’s actually relatively locked-in as the gruff but supportive Colonel Graff training the impressionable Ender (Asa Butterfield), who has to save the universe as all lads in these types of films tend to do.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Clearly, a tiny minority of lads will make it but nearly all will be a way of sourcing a cut of a government education grant … Anybody seen anything worth reading on this?
    Stuart James, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Effectiveness was 32% for children and adolescents, from the CDC's U.S. Flu VE network of health care systems.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In the 2010s, the developmental scientist Ron Dahl and Jennifer Silk, a University of Pittsburgh psychology professor, started wondering what went on inside adolescents’ brains when their parents nagged them.
    Jenny Anderson, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Nipper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nipper. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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