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Recent Examples of sharpen
No wrist fatigue, and gone are the days of sharpening my knives every week.
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Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
But pushing further comes down to sharpening the signal itself.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
His daughters were able to sharpen their communication skills, talk to friends and family, and set up their own playdates.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 15 Sep. 2025
Keep practicing and sharpening your shopping skills while learning from your mistakes.
—Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
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Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
But pushing further comes down to sharpening the signal itself.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
His daughters were able to sharpen their communication skills, talk to friends and family, and set up their own playdates.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 15 Sep. 2025
Keep practicing and sharpening your shopping skills while learning from your mistakes.
—Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharpen
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Just keep grinding, keep working.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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That’s when most of the area’s biggest theaters grind back into action.—
David Lyman,
The Enquirer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Over millennia, marine animals have honed ears and sonar-like abilities to read their world in vibrations and echoes, turning the ocean into a place both alive with sound and fine-tuned to its subtleties.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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The technology has been honed for most types of vehicles First Student operates.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Some argue that a two-state solution would whet rather than satisfy Palestinian political ambitions.—
RICHARD HAASS,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Sep. 2025
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Josh Harris, the Commanders’ owner, made his fortune as the co-founder of Apollo Global Management and while ownership rests with him personally and not any PE firm, his investment had to whet the appetite for more from the NFL and PE investors.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Sharpen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharpen. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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