sharp
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Record investment from 1994 to 1999 eventually gave way to a sharp decline in computer-related spending from 2001 to 2005.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Monday’s sharp selloff reflects easing fears of a broadening conflict after two weeks of strikes, but key risks remain, according to market watchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, dipped below $88 a barrel, marking a sharp turnaround from last week when it had risen above $100.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Turk's stances have earned him sharp criticism from several governments, notably Russia and Israel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
I was just contemplating opening it so I could slam it shut again when a sharp knock behind me about made me jump out of my skin.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
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
In the examples above, the sharps and flats are written next to the notes.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
However, the analysts remain cautious on the shares, arguing that the stock’s strong rally this year has already priced in a sharper acceleration in growth than is currently evident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The debate over health diplomacy has been thrown into sharper relief in recent weeks following the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Everything came into sharper focus—the glow of the fireflies down in the woods, the smell of the strawberry fields, the sound of the waves on the beach.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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
Some of the continent’s sharpest minds, including former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, have proposed profound changes to restore economic dynamism and gain influence on the world stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But in Mbappe they have a player in his prime, at his sharpest, showing why he is one of the best finishers on the planet.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
Officer Delinko wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he was beginning to suspect that this wasn’t the random work of juvenile pranksters.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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 Leacock, Stephen
"Sit down, Simon, sit down," said his Grace and carefully sharped a pen.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
To flat a sharped degree, use a natural.
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
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
Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it.
From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Twain, Mark
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