Some robots have three claws that can act as pincers to pick things up.

ECONOMIST: Mechanical hand seeks dangerous, dirty and dull jobs

After what seems like an eternity, Lars emerges in a chaos of crab legs, pincers and human arms.

BBC: The perfect trip: Norway

Marquee value stocks like Alcoa, Dow Chemical and DuPont are caught in the pincers of rising feedstock costs and declining product pricing.

FORBES: Buy the Lepers

The pear picker comes back to me now, a long pole with pincers at one end to cut the pears and a net to catch them.

NPR: Watching a Memory Shift over Time

On third and goal, the Trojans handed off to McNeal again and Notre Dame's safeties came off the edges and closed on him like the pincers on a spider.

WSJ: Notre Dame Beats USC for BCS Berth: Two Yards and a World of Difference

Andrew Mitchell has claimed he was caught "between the pincers" of the police and the media in the "plebgate" row which led to his resignation from the cabinet in October 2012.

BBC: Andrew Mitchell

The reason "Dear" may be destined to die is that it faces a dilemma much like an army confronted with a pincers movement in war: On the one flank, written-on-paper, mailed letters -- the kind that have always been started with "Dear" -- are rapidly disappearing, as use of the U.S. mail itself dwindles.

CNN: Is 'Dear' dead?