Example Sentences

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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

It could end up being a three-way contest, with the SNP's Angus Robertson one of the biggest potential scalps of the election.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 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

Pinned with numbers from the Giulia's manifest, they’d filed past a line of health inspectors who’d looked in their eyes and ears, rubbed their scalps, and flipped their eyelids inside out with buttonhooks.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides