scalpel
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“It’s because governments usually resort to blunt instruments, opting for the bludgeon of sweeping tariffs and subsidies over the scalpel of industrial parks and skills development programs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
The work in making government more efficient needs to be done with a scalpel, not a chainsaw.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
The surgeon in the penknife case, who the BBC is not naming, was operating on a patient at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton when he struggled to find a scalpel.
From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024
He opened the monkeys with a scalpel and began his inspection.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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