razor's edge

Example Sentences

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“This is a razor’s-edge type of business,” said Carson Block, a prominent short seller.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

Thursday for her razor’s-edge victory to be assured with the counting of absentee ballots.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2018

That North Carolina result would hardly be a surprise, of course: It has been a razor’s-edge state for three straight elections.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

In fact, of the 66 cases decided in the term that ended in June, only five resulted in a razor’s-edge split along the left-right fault line.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2015

The forty-six-minute concert from Berlin in 1973, with its blend of razor’s-edge improvisations and its over-all sonic invention, is a major discovery; it’s one of the high points of Davis’s discography.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2015