cotton bud

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Samsung, which is the biggest maker of Android phones, recommends using a cotton bud to get moisture out of the earphone jack and charging port.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

His video clips show teeth and tongue and an approaching cotton bud.

From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2022

“I went back around the outline with a cotton bud to manipulate the shape a little more to be more identical to the original work.”

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022

“I used a hairpin and the cotton bud to retrieve the spider, making sure to count the legs coming out, then made sure to give my ear a good clean,” he told SWNS.

From Fox News • Oct. 11, 2019

Once, when travelling at the South, I gathered a cotton bud; and would you believe it, in the course of three months it expanded to a perfect flower, and actually ripened its seeds?'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various