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Recent Examples of scalpel
Everyone’s yelling, and while Simone tries and fails to talk Jenna down, Lucas lunges at the frantic mother with a scalpel.
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Beans often have a very tough seed coat that prevents water from entering, and only when this is broken—by something such as wildfire heat, the acid of a bird’s stomach, a scalpel or sandpaper—can water enter and the seed awaken.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
Blunt instrument The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.
—Stephen L. Carter, Mercury News, 8 July 2025
The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.
—Stephen L. Carter, Twin Cities, 2 July 2025
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Beans often have a very tough seed coat that prevents water from entering, and only when this is broken—by something such as wildfire heat, the acid of a bird’s stomach, a scalpel or sandpaper—can water enter and the seed awaken.
—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
Blunt instrument The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.
—Stephen L. Carter, Mercury News, 8 July 2025
The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.
—Stephen L. Carter, Twin Cities, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalpel
Noun
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Months earlier, a pair of pedestrians found a 2,500-year-old dagger on a Polish beach, on the coast of the Baltic Sea.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert emerged last week like a dagger through the heart of late-night.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Jacob allegedly called his father during the confrontation and told him his husband had been preventing him from leaving the apartment and threatening him with a knife, per the outlet.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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At a news conference last month, Waters also highlighted images of a knife in McNeil’s car.—
Jeff Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Zakrzewski then called to each of his children separately to come brush their teeth before attacking them each with the machete.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Following the cast reveal for the new season of the ITV2 series, it was confirmed that Kyle Ashman would not enter the villa after being a suspect in a machete attack incident.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Inside his bag was a homemade explosive device, binoculars, a pocketknife and a torch lighter.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
23 July 2025
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Officers also recovered 11 orange pills believed to be Adderall and a pocketknife from Tracy’s pocket.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Tyla completed her look with strappy, peep-toe stilettos and accessorized with minimal jewelry.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
8 Aug. 2025
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In addition to being still, people have also done the pose in stilettos while surfing, doing squats and drinking.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Jackson said Burgin threatened her with a handgun and also has a rifle and a switchblade, the filing says.—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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The agency shares that knives of any length, including switchblades, are not permitted on board aircraft and through TSA checkpoints.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2025
Noun
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In the artwork, a militiaman cradles the dying revolutionary, holding out his hand to stop a British soldier from stabbing Warren with a bayonet.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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Lots of people died fighting for this in – in just horrific struggles when the main form of killing was a bayonet.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 July 2025
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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.—
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
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“Scalpel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalpel. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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