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Recent Examples of sharpenThe far center does not lack for easy marks, and Chu might occasionally sharpen her pencil on a Pamela Paul or a Bret Easton Ellis.—S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 2 May 2025 Christie is played by actress Vivien Keene in the course videos but her voice and appearance has been sharpened by artificial intelligence.—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025 His remarks have sharpened public anxieties and bolstered support for Carney's Liberals, who are seen as less aligned with Trump than their Conservative rivals.—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025 Use the control-click of the sharpness adjustment tool to reveal a sharpening layer mask.—Josh Dury, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sharpen
These interests, the thinking goes, feed into a culture that grinds the spirits of bright young women into pixie dust by insisting that their outward appearance is ultimately more important than their actions.
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Faran Krentcil,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2025
Things got worse after the emergence of Covid, which ground global trade to a halt and exposed how much the United States, and the rest of the world, needed China for everything from surgical masks to pain medicines.
Akil takes an approach better suited for a visual medium, making the two halves of the couple equal co-leads and finely honing each character.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
8 May 2025
After graduating from the prestigious Louis-Lumière film school, the cinematographer honed her eye shooting projects for Christophe Honoré, Agnès Varda and Sandrine Veysset.
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