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Amongst the collection of bags brought up on one such Cornish trip were cuttings of a small red algae which was pink-banded with pincer tips.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Having already seized New York City, Britain’s Gen. William Howe ordered a pincer advance on the fort—a defensive position built on Manhattan, 300 feet above the Hudson River—driving American troops into its walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

It was enormous and looked like the bottom half of a lobster’s pincer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

I think you are trapped in this pincer of worrying deeply about the integrity of the court and also, at the same time, critiquing it.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024

It was an army of wind-up creepy-crawlies: bronze-gear bodies, spindly legs, little pincer mouths, all scuttling toward us in a wave of clacking, whirring metal.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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