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Recent Examples of scalp
Joanne Fowler, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Hair loss is when the hair falls out from the scalp.
—Patty Weasler, Rn, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025
Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
This is a movie that works by scalping our expectations.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
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Noun
With encouragement from her doctor, Martin also endured multiple sessions of cold capping, a process that involves circulating ice-cold gel around the scalp during chemotherapy, to help reduce hair loss.
—Joanne Fowler, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Hair loss is when the hair falls out from the scalp.
—Patty Weasler, Rn, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
However, 29-year-old Matthew Short and Labuschagne revived the Aussies momentum with a 95-run partnership before Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone scalped two wickets during the middle overs, leaving Australia at 4-135.
—Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
This is a movie that works by scalping our expectations.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalp
Noun
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Each participant received a small device embedded on top of the skull and an IPG in a simple one hour surgical procedure that leaves the skull’s inner table intact.—
Naveen Rao,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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In 2007, Nicolas Cage won a bidding war against Leonardo DiCaprio for a $276,000 T. rex skull.—
Catherine Baab-Muguira,
Quartz,
2 Apr. 2025
Verb
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And with perhaps 40% of all devices manufactured overseas, they’re likely headed for a heavy hit that will ripple out through device manufacturers, hospitals, insurers and the millions of people whose health relies on them.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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When the friends head to the public library to attend their first minicomics convention, their giddy, nervous excitement is palpable.—
James Sturm,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These larger figurines have detachable heads and small holes in their necks and craniums.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
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The first part of the book covered the anatomy of the cranium with woodcut illustrations; the second described his methods of treatment of head wounds, skull fractures and diseases of the facial organs.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
Verb
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But far from decapitating the far right, this ruling – that followed a guilty verdict on embezzlement charges – could actually strengthen it by fueling populist grievances and accelerating the rebranding of Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
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But when the staffer returned 15 minutes later, according to Campbell, the carcass had been decapitated.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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An all-gold version of the 1675 was available with stick hands, with earlier versions featuring no crown guards and later versions adding them.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
28 Mar. 2025
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The case is made of tantalum, with a platinum bezel, caseback, lugs, crown and buckle.—
Carol Besler,
Forbes,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Law stars as the Tudor King Henry VIII while Vikander plays Katharine, the sixth wife of the infamous historical figure who cast two of the wives out and beheaded two others, while another one of his wives died in childbirth.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Six weeks later, on July 28, Cromwell was beheaded on Tower Hill.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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On March 7, a UK judge shortened the sentence of the group’s founder, Roger Hallam, for disrupting a traffic event after an appeal.—
Angelica Villa,
ARTnews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Ward shortened his drop and threw a strike in the small sliver of space just before the hash mark.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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If pruning for routine winter maintenance, select branches from your trimmings to bring inside.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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Feel free to prune it back as much as needed — even to within a few feet of the ground.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Scalp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalp. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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