sharp
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He routinely met a hostile premise with calm facts, a sharp answer and a smile that made the host’s irritation look frivolous.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was his fourth hit in two games, representing a sharp turnaround after going 0 for 7 in the first two games of the series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
An all-rounder for the better part of her first decade in cricket, she made herself indispensable to the side with her explosive middle-order batting, crafty off-spin and sharp fielding skills.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The signature dish, made with sharp, slow-melting Kolot cheese, comes in a crust that’s been liberally basted with butter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
He had a messy thatch of brown hair and an Adam’s apple sharp as a teenager’s, but he was at least ten years older than me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The proposed metal needle bin will be concreted to the ground and will provide a secure way of disposing of sharps.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
In 2019, the organization installed two sharps containers in Ely, a city of fewer than 4,000 residents.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
They even found ways to put sharps containers out of sight, so that those who were nervous about shots weren’t fearful.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
If not, the sharps will be betting that Vogel doesn’t last past the All-Star break, and that’s probably right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
He would open the book and point to different things, explaining their purpose: “Key! Treble! Bass! No sharps or flats! So this is C major! Listen now and plav after me!”
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
It is the large pool of domestic institutional and retail money, flowing into instruments like mutual funds, that have helped the markets avoid a sharper fall.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
By the end of my stay, I felt sharper and more empowered to deal with stress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Their teeth were unusually specialized for eating plants compared with the sharper teeth used for eating insects that are common among many Cretaceous mammals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
That bullish positioning leaves the market vulnerable to a much sharper pullback than we have seen so far, especially if any further bad news comes along to spark renewed fears.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Chief seemed sharper than he had been before.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Without those additional adjustments, Roman would not remain steady enough to produce its sharpest possible images.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The rebels also clashed with government troops in neighboring Afar, in the sharpest escalation of hostilities since the end of the devastating civil war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Most frozen turkeys were trucked to stores before diesel’s sharpest increases, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
He wasn’t the most efficient, the most pristine, the sharpest — but he was fit to throw 98 pitches and six innings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
She peered into her satchel, found her sharpest pencil, and held it in her left hand—lightly, as though it was a butterfly and might fly away.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
These are some macho men of the old Southern tradition, and trying their final product usually consists of a gigantically sharped bushman’s knife hacking through a Fred Flintstone style brontosaurus size steak.
From Forbes ● Jan. 21, 2015
Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And you left it?" she sharped, her voice tense.
From Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock
He sharped the razor onct," said Mrs. Lieders, "but he said it was for to shave him, and I got him to promise to let the barber shave him sometime, instead.
From Stories of a Western Town by Octave Thanet
A softe pace he went over the street Unto a smith, men callen Dan* Gerveis, *master That in his forge smithed plough-harness; He sharped share and culter busily.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
Looking beyond individual commodities, three broader macro forces are also sharping the market, said Guy Wolf, global head of market analytics at Marex.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
Keaton’s comeback is the result, he says, of sharping his focus.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outwardly innocent, Santana's instrumental solos are long-lined and full of musical guile, bending, flatting and sharping with something of the intricacy of Oriental music.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have no inclination for play myself, but I happened a short time since to fall in with a man who was well acquainted with all the various methods of card sharping.
From Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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