scalping

present participle of scalp

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  • The jihadist groups have been accused of beheading villagers and kidnapping children to be used as laborers or child soldiers.
    Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • Winnecke is accused of killing and decapitating his father.
    Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2025
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  • Its food business, which includes Lay’s chips, Quaker, and Rice-A-Roni, is no longer strong enough to paper over its beverage weakness; Elliott suggests some pruning.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Tools like pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation all reduce model size or speed up inference.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Scalping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalping. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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