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ragged edge



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The last few years I've been off balance, right on the ragged edge of my technique where that if I have to push a little bit more, I lose it.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2024

But this sleek atmosphere conceals a ragged edge.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2023

This keeps the paint from tearing and creating a ragged edge.

From Washington Post Jun. 5, 2020

Yet she was born in Oklahoma, where her family, as she put it, was “on the ragged edge of the middle class … kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 14, 2019

My tongue felt the ragged edge of a broken tooth.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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