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scalp

[skalp] / skælp /


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A companion study examining the same participants identified significant differences in hair and scalp health among people taking GLP-1 medications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

He received food packages and had access to a red-light helmet he believes is good for his hair and scalp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The team compared genetic patterns associated with GLP1R activity with genes found in men who have androgenetic alopecia, the inherited form of hair loss that typically affects the top and front of the scalp.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Bowled quickly on day four but still only has one scalp in the series.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

I felt an itch in my scalp, but I did not dare scratch it.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

Roland-Jones is a legendary figure at the club and he showed exactly why with a near-immaculate spell, taking the key scalps of Rishi Patel and Ahmed.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

In a recent study, researchers placed electrodes across the scalps of sedated patients, capturing their brain-wave data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

State laws restricting private-equity involvement in the medical sector have taken their first scalps, as authorities signal an aggressive approach to enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Four former Peruvian presidents, including one who committed suicide, became embroiled in the same case that has claimed numerous corporate and political scalps.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

However, the age and gender of victims were not easily distinguished by their scalps.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“In fact, the exhibitors set the price and, frankly, with tickets at Lincoln Square being scalped for $1,000, I think there’s room to move up the prices for a film.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

The pitted road surface was scalped by a 30-tonne machine planer and the debris swept out before a bitumen emulsion binder was sprayed ahead of the laying of fresh asphalt.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

“This worthy president,” retorted Biddle in 1834, “thinks that because he has scalped Indians and imprisoned judges, he is to have his way with the Bank. He is mistaken.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

The final showing was so popular that tickets were scalped, and the film won the festival’s first-ever audience award.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019

The lords clasped their bare heads as if they'd been scalped.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

On the scalping site StubHub, tickets for the BTS shows in Mexico are going for as much as $13,000.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

Washington’s intention to wage a humane and gentlemanly war for American independence was subsumed by proliferating mayhem, especially on the remote frontiers, where practices such as scalping were well established.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

But there are significant environmental issues involved in scalping eastern Nevada’s mountainous public lands of century-old trees standing 15 to 20 feet tall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Such is the effect of Swift's current Eras Tour that she has crashed ticketing sites, experts have coined a new 'Swiftonomics' trend, and places like Victoria in Australia have rushed through scalping law reform.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023

Tell everybody, when you write your story, that they’re scalping our souls out here.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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