bleeding edge

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the most advanced stage of a technology, art, etc., usually experimental and risky.

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Origin of bleeding edge

1980–85; patterned on cutting edge or leading edge

Words nearby bleeding edge

bleeder, bleeder resistor, bleeder's disease, bleeder tile, bleeding, bleeding edge, bleeding heart, bleed someone white, bleed valve, bleep, bleeper

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How to use bleeding edge in a sentence

You have companies you acquire because they’re at the bleeding edge of experimenting with new things and so that can accelerate innovation.
Michael Dell Has Been a Tech CEO for 34 Years. He Has Some Advice For Younger Founders|John Simons|October 31, 2021|Time
WiFi 6E is the bleeding edge of consumer wireless tech, and the Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 is the best option available now.
The best WiFi 6 routers: Next-gen networking|Will Fulton|October 4, 2021|Popular-Science
They basically control the most complicated part of the semiconductor ecosystem, and they’re a near monopoly at the bleeding edge.
Inside the Taiwan Firm That Makes the World’s Tech Run|Charlie Campbell|October 1, 2021|Time
Most cannot hire the talent needed to stay at the bleeding edges of programmatic advertising.
The coming cookie changes will force some small publishers to give up on advertising altogether|Max Willens|March 31, 2021|Digiday

Thomas Pynchon was still making fun of it last year in his novel Bleeding Edge.
In Japan, Zima Haz No Zexual Preference|Jake Adelstein, Angela Erika Kubo|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is one of the only times I can think of when life imitates art to the very bleeding edge of an aluminum shank.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Dark possibilities are beginning to emerge,” he writes at one point in Bleeding Edge.
Thomas Pynchon Meets His Match: The Internet|Alexander Nazaryan|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.
Thomas Pynchon Meets His Match: The Internet|Alexander Nazaryan|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for bleeding edge

bleeding edge

noun

the very forefront of technological development

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