scalpel

Example Sentences

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“It’s because governments usually resort to blunt instruments, opting for the bludgeon of sweeping tariffs and subsidies over the scalpel of industrial parks and skills development programs.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But grab a scalpel and cut 10 minutes out of it and “The Bride!” would be a rip-roaring dazzler.

From Los Angeles Times

I watch as a lab technician separates young shoots with a sterile scalpel and forceps.

From BBC

Akutagawa, recalled Kurosawa in his memoir, “goes into the depths of the human heart as if with a surgeon’s scalpel, laying bare its dark complexities and bizarre twists.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.

From Los Angeles Times