scalpel
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But grab a scalpel and cut 10 minutes out of it and “The Bride!” would be a rip-roaring dazzler.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
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
A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile 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
Dad carried Luke inside and Mother fetched her scalpel.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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