razor

Example Sentences

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"It will take a colossal effort, but we are excited about the challenge, and we know that we have to be razor sharp in all departments to get the desired result."

From BBC

But the margin for error is razor thin.

From BBC

The android knows how to navigate the planet’s threats—exploding spike plants, acid-spitting eels, literal razor grass—so Dek reluctantly teams up with her to find his quarry.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t have a theory for Mr. Roberts’s motive, although I am partial to the principle known as Hanlon’s razor: Don’t attribute to malice what you can explain by stupidity.

From The Wall Street Journal

Studying assassinations is indeed like “running a razor blade down the history of international politics: the cut is narrow, but long and deep.”

From The Wall Street Journal