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scalping

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present participle of scalp

as in beheading

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When their younger son told them Daniel was watching beheading videos online, the Fischers hit their breaking point.

— Jeff Winter, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Images often associated with barbarism on screen, like beheading the dead to memorialize them, are approached with an uncanny gentleness.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026

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Prosecutors said boater Richard Stevenson, of Lisle, was intoxicated and traveling at about 80 mph in July on the river when his pontoon hit a boat carrying Magdalena Jablonska of Des Plaines, decapitating her, authorities said.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026
After decapitating the body, Kennedy tied the head to the top of the family's minivan with a bungee cord, making for a less-than-pleasant five-hour drive back home to Mount Kisco, New York, according to her recollection.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 May 2026

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States can help by pruning occupational licensing requirements and making credentials modular and stackable, so short qualifications add up into longer ones.

— Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
It’s been a dynamic year with a varied complexion of transactions, from mega-mergers to portfolio pruning through corporate divestitures.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026

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