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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalped
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She was dismembered, de-fleshed, and even beheaded before being burned.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Jan. 2026 -
According to Open Doors, the continent’s most populous nation saw the worst persecution in Africa in 2025, with ‘non-stop stories of deadly attacks and kidnappings’ across Nigeria’s north and Middle Belt — a litany of villages torched, citizens raped, abducted, shot and beheaded.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
28 Dec. 2025
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With this regime change operation, the government of Venezuela has been decapitated.—
Keir Simmons,
NBC news,
3 Jan. 2026
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With Hamas decimated, Lebanon’s Hezbollah largely decapitated, the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria toppled, and Shiite militias in Iraq avoiding conflict with Israel, the other members of Iran’s once powerful axis of resistance are severely weakened.—
April Longley Alley,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Scalped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalped. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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