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Soak a cotton swab or ball with vanilla extract and place it in the fridge for up to 24 hours.
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Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 30 June 2025
With a fresh jersey and a cotton swab stuffed up each nostril, Luna ran back onto the field.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 9 July 2025
Photograph: Chris Null As anyone who’s ever stuck a cotton swab in there knows, your ear canal is a filthy, disgusting place.
—Christopher Null, Wired News, 22 June 2025
At one large, three-day show in Cleveland, Ohio, Kaelin and crew swabbed 100 cats on-site by sticking a cotton swab into their mouths to collect a small bit of DNA from the inside of their cheeks.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
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Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 30 June 2025
With a fresh jersey and a cotton swab stuffed up each nostril, Luna ran back onto the field.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 9 July 2025
Photograph: Chris Null As anyone who’s ever stuck a cotton swab in there knows, your ear canal is a filthy, disgusting place.
—Christopher Null, Wired News, 22 June 2025
At one large, three-day show in Cleveland, Ohio, Kaelin and crew swabbed 100 cats on-site by sticking a cotton swab into their mouths to collect a small bit of DNA from the inside of their cheeks.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
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“Cotton swab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cotton%20swab. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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