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The decline followed a sharp rally last week, when Brent gained more than 6%, settling Friday at $116.72 a barrel, its highest closing level in nearly six months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The process involves warmer air being pushed northwards and colder air moving southwards across large areas of the Atlantic, creating a sharp contrast in temperatures.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

There’s no slicing and dicing without a sufficiently sharp edge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Daily inflows into the leveraged ETF continued until Thursday — the day its shares took a huge dive as semiconductor stocks saw sharp selloff, FactSet data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

So did The Bulldog, his jowly face more deeply lined than ever, his voice as he fussed at his dogs, sharp with strain.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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-mounted hand sanitising containers were empty and medical sharps bins were filled above capacity.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2022

In 2019, the organization installed two sharps containers in Ely, a city of fewer than 4,000 residents.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022

If there are no flats or sharps listed after the clef symbol, then the key signature is "all notes are natural."

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The decline in U.S. crude oil stockpiles last week was sharper than expected at 3.1 million barrels, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But he added that rates have also been rising, with sharper increases in recent years as the utility catches up on infrastructure spending at a time when costs have gone up across the board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

That improvement means Roman should be capable of producing even sharper images than its designers initially expected, strengthening its ability to carry out detailed observations across enormous regions of the sky.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

But the pain she’d felt from Nico was sharper.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Without those additional adjustments, Roman would not remain steady enough to produce its sharpest possible images.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 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

My “defeatism,” as it was called, brought upon my head the sharpest disapproval of the party leader.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

To sharp a sharped degree, use a double sharp.

From Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens

It was the deepest disgrace we ever knew if we had sharped or flatted when we got back to the starting point.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard

I heerd a skreekin’, an’ screamin’, an’ screevin’, as ef all the saws in Massissippi war bein’ sharped ’ithin twenty yards o’ my ear.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

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

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

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 breadth whereof was two paces, and seauen in heigth, artificiously sharping of the stone of Thebais called Pyrus.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington