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nail file

NOUN
file for fingernails
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Using these tools and a nail file that Starr had slipped in her pocket when she used the restroom, they cut the zip ties and came up with a plan.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2025

"And you can sit there with a nail file and try to pry the chiton off; you will lose."

From Science Daily Mar. 4, 2024

Tom moved back in with his parents for five years while he developed the curvy nail file that made him famous.

From BBC May 6, 2021

Yet he promptly handed down a sentence so lenient it basically had a nail file baked right into it.

From Slate Mar. 8, 2019

Each time it was something else: “I forgot my nail file in the car!”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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