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sharpen

[shahr-puhn] / ˈʃɑr pən /




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Fortunately, we saw enough to sharpen up a list of favorites.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The venture, the biggest attempt yet by Google to sell and monetize its own chips to external parties, will sharpen a rivalry with Nvidia, the market leader in AI computing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“Spencer Pratt is using AI the way it should be used, which is to sharpen reality,” said Matt Klink, an L.A.-based Republican political consultant.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Grove dumped his thoughts into marble composition notebooks to sharpen his thinking, said Richard S. Tedlow, a Harvard Business School professor emeritus who was granted access to those journals.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

"How he gonna sharpen it on the floor, yo?"

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson




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