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The boom results were posted despite South Korean stocks suffering a sharp sell-off on Wednesday as nervous traders unwound AI-driven bets, fretting whether lofty profit forecasts are realistic.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Under sharp questioning by Cornyn, Blanche said those entities hadn’t altered the agreement and acknowledged that Trump could theoretically sue the government for breach of contract for failing to create the fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Their league cricket is utterly uncompromising, it's ruthless and I've certainly seen evidence of sharp practice in the two or three seasons I played there.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Micron Technology, Sandisk and other U.S. chip stocks are extending sharp declines on Tuesday as developments in Asia send ripples overseas.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The gentle tugging became a sharp, southerly yank.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Professional bettors, otherwise known as sharps, affect betting lines for all sports.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

This 20th century Brazilian channeling of Bach flowed naturally from Cuong’s G sharps, leaving that impression that, while the scenery differs, the Amazon, Rhine and Mekong Delta are all rivers, and water everywhere is nourishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

It also found wall-mounter hand sanitising containers were empty and medical sharps bins were filled to above capacity.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2022

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

Notice that, just as with the key signatures, you add sharps or subtract flats as you go clockwise around the circle, and add flats or subtract sharps as you go counterclockwise.

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

Half of Americans report feeling divided from one another; a recent Stanford study gives this fracture a sharper name: the “empathy perception gap.”

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

In the worm's jaws, sharper changes in strain across tiny regions appear to increase the interlocking of defects within the atomic structure, producing the characteristic size effect.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

But that agreement can obscure a much sharper divergence.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

Her other two priorities are sharper accountability and strong cost and capital discipline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Bertha continued, her voice getting sharper and angrier.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

But it is increasing rapidly in people under 40, with some of the sharpest rises in women aged 20 to 29.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

After observing these lab grown retinas over several months, the team identified the cellular events that shape the foveola, the tiny region at the center of the retina responsible for the sharpest vision.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

The pattern was sharpest where it would matter most: Residents of agriculture-dependent regions were more likely to say ICE presence would hurt the economy.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Yields on short-term Treasury notes, which move inversely to prices, marked their sharpest one-day rise in three months, reaching their highest closing level since early last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

“Well, he ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed, is he?” she observed.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

A high, childish soprano voice was essaying to carry the sustained note an octave above the man's voice; once it sharped.

From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

The transcriber had failed to make this change, and so had lost the uplifting effect of the sharped F. All the life and color of the phrase had been destroyed, and the result was intolerable.

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel

Do not say: "Put a double-sharp on 6" or "put a double-sharp on C," or "indicate" a higher or lower pitch "on" a sharped or flatted degree.

From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson

Keaton’s comeback is the result, he says, of sharping his focus.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2014

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

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

Nor does he ever seem to question the various means by which he pursues his end: army desertion, card sharping, contracting a loveless marriage in order to acquire a fortune.

From Time Magazine Archive

He waded, without any shame, Through thick and thin to get a name, Tried every sharping trick for bread, And after all he seldom sped.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst