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Recent Examples of scalp
Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
Plaques are most common on the scalp, elbows, and knees.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 6 Apr. 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
Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive sweating in the underarms, face, scalp, palms and feet, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
Plaques are most common on the scalp, elbows, and knees.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 6 Apr. 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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Police also collected large bloody rocks that authorities said were used to smash her skull.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The skull shape also shows how an animal moves its mouth, providing yet another clue to eating habits.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Located only some 25 light years away, Mu Cas A is headed towards us along our line of sight at a clip of some 97 km per second.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The women are also now among 52 others who have previously boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle to head more than 60 miles high for a few minutes of weightlessness and spectacular views of Earth.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
14 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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Later that day, a park staff member discovered someone had decapitated the deceased sea lion, NOAA wrote in a news release posted Tuesday.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
13 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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In the certification process, the movement is subjected to rigorous testing simulating 16 years of wear, including 100,000 crown winds and exposure to 60,000 shocks, temperature and humidity variations and more.—
Roberta Naas,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The real-life Cromwell was beheaded in 1540 on orders from Henry VIII.—
Sean Piccoli,
Deadline,
5 Apr. 2025
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Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is shown blindfolded as an executioner with an axe waits to behead her.—
Pan Pylas,
Chicago Tribune,
9 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 23 Apr. 2025.
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