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scalpel

[skal-puhl] / ˈskæl pəl /


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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 • Oct. 17, 2025

But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

The surgeon in the penknife case, who the BBC is not naming, was operating on a patient at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton when he struggled to find a scalpel.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

But the more crucial cuts take a scalpel to its core duo’s addictively poisonous dynamic.

From Salon • May 2, 2024

John Coleus certainly caught the virus when he cut himself with a bloody scalpel, no question about that.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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