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"I just got this massive sharp bang in my head. It was like a bomb had gone off," said Saskia, who lives between Worcester and Gloucester.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Since the start of this AI-driven bull market, pockets of outperformance for healthcare have been confined to a handful of sharp but short-lived rallies with little meaningful follow-through, Colas said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

In the third quarter, both big banks and midsize regionals reported sharp jumps in their traditional business-loan books, known in the industry as commercial-and-industrial lending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Exit polls had shown Israeli Arab lists projected to win 18 or 19 seats, a sharp gain.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

From far above came Wolf’s sharp urgent bark.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

At a recycling plant in Coventry, I watched staff sorting rubbish on a fast-moving conveyor belt when a crushed yellow sharps container suddenly appeared among the waste.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

No one associated with the musical knows whether a show so right for pastry puns set to sharps and flats can be a hefty source of … dough.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

The old ones go into a sharps container — a sturdy plastic box — that he sends to Trac-B Exchange in Las Vegas, where they are sterilized and pulverized for safe disposal.

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

List the flats or sharps in this key signature.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Other county attorneys hit a sharper tone in their own responses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

They also provide sharper images of particle tracks than conventional plastic detectors that require chemical etching.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

The market had anticipated a substantially sharper increase, especially given the 2Q revenue miss that potentially delayed some revenue recognition to 3Q, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

But because Brazil industrialised late and deindustrialised early, he argues, the effects have been sharper here.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The doctors used much sharper and bigger knives in the operation.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Engineers also tested the instrument's alignment mechanism and moved it from the deliberately unfocused position used during launch to the position expected to provide the sharpest images.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Some of the sharpest exchanges in the one-hour debate, hosted by NBC4 and Telemundo 52, revolved around McDonnell, who was appointed by Bass to lead the Los Angeles Police Department in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Saudi Arabia saw one of the sharpest falls in projected growth, with the IMF forecasting a contraction of 3.3 percent -- a cut in the forecast of 5.0 percentage points.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Now sharing a roster with Malachi Toney, the sharpest receiver he’s ever had, Mensah has somehow become even more accurate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Bobby’s own play was not at its sharpest, but he exploited the weak moves of his opponent and pressed home the advantage until Tal lapsed into a hopeless endgame and resigned.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.

From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton

"And you left it?" she sharped, her voice tense.

From Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock

Dey say de brudder, Mister Benny, he done sharped it 'way from de others befo' he die, but I 'lieve the gals will win dat lawsuit.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

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

With all this injustice, he is never a good case, but, like those among I men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh sharping knave! that would have—you know what, For a poor sneaking treat of chocolate. p.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Montague Summers