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Recent Examples of scalpelHigh-resolution 3-D scans allow researchers to visualize minuscule anatomies without lifting a scalpel.—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025 Think scalpel rather than sledgehammer.—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025 While Nvidia's GPUs are versatile general-purpose processors, TPUs act like specialized scalpels optimized for AI workloads.—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Just as eerie is its sound design, which evocatively captures, for instance, the squish of a scalpel slicing through alien flesh.—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scalpel
Early in the investigation, authorities searched trash cans in the alley outside the Rainbow Room for knives but tested only a few of the liquor bottles in the club for prints.
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Keith Sharon,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Oct. 2025
Here’s a handsome Japanese cutting board that’s designed to minimize stress on your hand and lengthen the life of your chef’s knives.
There are flies in the folds of her kitchen curtains, probably, and a machete left out on the lawn.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
From smashing into glass doors as a burglar to attacking with a machete and acting as a ‘dangerous’ nanny, the Unitree G1 was initially tested for its usefulness as an assistant before appearing for the durability tests.
Leipold said in his postgame press conference that a pocketknife had been thrown during the game and had hit a member of Kansas’ staff.
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Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
Investigators allegedly recovered evidence from Louisma's car, including a pocketknife with blood stains on it, machetes, a rope, a roll of duct tape, pink HeyDude shoes, and a cut up pink shirt with duct tape wrapped around it, CBS2 Iowa reports.
The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
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Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
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