pliers

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“Are they scrappy? Yes. Are they all working in bombed-out buildings with pliers found on the side of the road? No,” said Justin Zeefe, a founding partner at Los Angeles- and Kyiv-based Green Flag Ventures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

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

From BBC • May 27, 2024

Using pliers, a hot soldering iron, scissors and other tools, Terrell Glenn and Cierra Milton taught participants how to assemble and connect a large button to a battery-operated toy.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Border Patrol agents used pliers to cut open a passage through the thickets of barbed wire.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

In Laila’s hands was a metal spoke she had snapped with a pair of pliers from an abandoned bicycle wheel.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini