sharp
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Predictably, the outspoken sports pundit, who also weighs in with sharp takes on politics and popular culture, is not pleased with the assessment and is planning a fiery response: “Now y’all started something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
At Dar Lbahja, the increase was so sharp at one point they had to buy more meat in the middle of service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The £117m club-record signing from Aston Villa initially looked sharp and linked well with Cole Palmer and Pedro in Chelsea's front three.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Vandalizing the cameras is a sharp rebuttal to Silicon Valley talk about how technology will liberate us from the limitations of the physical world.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
His name tore out of me, sharp on the cold air.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Professional bettors, otherwise known as sharps, affect betting lines for all sports.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
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
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
She moved her right hand, playing upon the flats and sharps.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Arsenal looked sharper, Tzolis looked incredible, Lewis-Skelly wanted to show he's fighting for his place and City looked absolutely lost, it's only the community shield but what a great show from the Arsenal!
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Key details: A separate price gauge known as the core rate, which strips out food and energy, rose at a sharper 0.4% clip in July.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Lorie Logan, the third dissenting vote and president of the Dallas Fed, also issued a statement on Friday, agreeing with the need for "modest action" now to reduce the need for potentially sharper hikes later.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
When he is stymied, as tends to happen, he seeks the advice of his captive, a sharper man than any of the small-minded, superstitious figures on his council.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I needed another and heavier spear, also a larger bow and sharper arrows.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
That’s the sharpest drop among the top 50 metro areas, according to Redfin data.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The 30-year yield rose to 5.274%, a new 19-year high, after the sharpest one month rise since 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The sharpest departure in the new government's foreign policy could be over Israel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
As the investigation widened, its sharpest effect was felt far from Abuja.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Young heads still meake the sharpest, they do say.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
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 Van Tassel Sutphen
And when he sharped yon old carving-knife of grandfather’s, you couldn’t tell arter he’d done which side were the back and which side were the edge.
From Frank Oldfield Lost and Found by Theodore P. Wilson
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
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
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
The Great Kaan hath prohibited all gambling and sharping, things more prevalent there than in any other part of the world.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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