as in sharpened
having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something
always store your finely edged knives in a knife block
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as in bordered
to serve as a border for
pavement edging the flower bed
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Recent Examples of edged
Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
Leading without a baton, Luisi uses his hands to mold sounds alternately soft- and hard-edged, dark and dense or bright and shiny.
—Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022
Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
Fishback, 31, barely edged across the 30-year-old minimum age to run, a likely asset in courting Nick Fuentes and the far-right podcaster’s youthful Groyper audience.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
In his hands, Danny’s charms quickly curdle into selfishness and sharp-edged violence.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
Leading without a baton, Luisi uses his hands to mold sounds alternately soft- and hard-edged, dark and dense or bright and shiny.
—Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022
Verb
Oil prices edged lower as markets weighed the potential impact of geopolitical tensions.
—Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
Fishback, 31, barely edged across the 30-year-old minimum age to run, a likely asset in courting Nick Fuentes and the far-right podcaster’s youthful Groyper audience.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for edged
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At the same time, a currency collapsing under international sanctions, water shortages and recurring power outages have sharpened a sense of crisis across the country.—
Roxana Saberi,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Kantor, 42, learned to knit when spending the summer with her grandparents at their bungalow colony in the Catskills, and sharpened her skills in the stands at her brother’s little league games.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Central Business District is bordered by Stemmons Freeway, Interstate 30, Woodall Rogers Freeway, and the Interstate 345 Expressway, and in 2025 a dedicated patrol division was created to focus on the unique concerns in a large city's urban core.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The country of more than 28 million people is bordered by Colombia to the west, Brazil to the south, Guyana to the east, and the Caribbean Sea to the north.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The numbers mark a sharp reversal from a spike in violence during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The blazer of Middleton’s look included sharp shoulders with sinuous lapels and angular pockets at the waist.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
8 Jan. 2026
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In a state bounded on three sides by seawater, where water courses through underground aquifers and some 50 inches of rain falls annually, a series of historic efforts to drain the Everglades have made modern Florida possible.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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More than 60% of those arrests — nearly 1,200 — occurred in the Harrison District, roughly bounded by Division Street, Roosevelt Road, Western and Cicero avenues.—
Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Edged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/edged. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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