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Recent Examples of scalp
Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 5 Jan. 2025
This detoxifying shampoo is the ultimate reset for your scalp.
—Erin Parker, Allure, 3 Jan. 2025
Matt Burgess, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Lustig presents his slasher, told entirely from the perspective of Frank Zito (Joe Spinell), a killer with a penchant for scalping women and conversing with his mannequins, from a gritty, psychological perspective.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Solutions, foams, and lotions contain water, oil, and chemicals and are typically used on your scalp.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 5 Jan. 2025
This detoxifying shampoo is the ultimate reset for your scalp.
—Erin Parker, Allure, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
Other uses can include ad verification or people scalping sneakers during sales.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Lustig presents his slasher, told entirely from the perspective of Frank Zito (Joe Spinell), a killer with a penchant for scalping women and conversing with his mannequins, from a gritty, psychological perspective.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalp
Noun
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For the next eight months, Isabella was in and out of the hospital and underwent two follow-up surgeries to clean out an infection around the surgical site and replace part of her skull with a titanium mesh plate.—
Liz McNeil,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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The surgery, called a pars plana vitrectomy with air tamponade, is commonly performed to fix retina tears or detachments by replacing part of the vitreous fluid inside the eye with air, thereby allowing the eye to maintain its shape in your skull after a portion has been removed.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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For some recent perspective on the surge in Netflix’s valuation, in fall 2021, before The Great Netflix Correction, shares appeared to be headed for $700.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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When winds are whipping and grey clouds are threatening, heading indoors—and staying there—leads to another annual occurrence: peak cuffing season.—
Ariel Okin,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2025
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This indicates that the bones were gathered over multiple generations—perhaps six to eight—before being placed in the heap at the possible rate, on average, of one cranium every decade or so.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
11 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Holloway killed Dodd, 22, at her apartment on June 9, 2022, according to the outlet, and decapitated her afterwards, leaving her head in a nearby dumpster.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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His decapitated remains washed ashore after a few days, and three years later, the case remained unresolved, even as authorities ruled his death a homicide.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Guests embraced colorful patterns, maximalist prints, and accessorized with feathers, fringe, crowns, masks, brass, leather, belts, bells, and all things glitter and gold.—
Alexandra Macon,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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Colman took to the stage to introduce Erivo with glitter on her face and a small crown that appeared to feature Princess Tiana from Disney's The Princess and the Frog.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
26 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Disneyland adds new show scenes during Haunted Mansion makeover The new storyline turns the attic bride from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands for their fortunes into a brooding bride mourning the loss of her husbands and filled with the overwhelming dread of lost love.—
Brady MacDonald,
Orange County Register,
18 Jan. 2025
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Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The importance of love, and just seeing each other as human beings and how love can kind of shorten the gap of any divide between people.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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These costs appear to speed up their epigenetic aging, and even shorten their overall lifespans.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Although they can be pruned into any shape, Wood recommends that pruning is kept within the framework of the plant.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Jan. 2025
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Grape vines and trees will lose their crop if they aren’t pruned in time.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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“Scalp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalp. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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