bleeding edge

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

bleeding edge

noun

1. the very forefront of technological development

Word History and Origins

Origin of bleeding edge¹

1980–85; patterned on cutting edge or leading edge

Example Sentences

You have companies you acquire because they’re at the bleeding edge of experimenting with new things and so that can accelerate innovation.

From Time

WiFi 6E is the bleeding edge of consumer wireless tech, and the Netgear Nighthawk RAXE500 is the best option available now.

From Popular-Science

They basically control the most complicated part of the semiconductor ecosystem, and they’re a near monopoly at the bleeding edge.

From Time

Most cannot hire the talent needed to stay at the bleeding edges of programmatic advertising.

From Digiday

Thomas Pynchon was still making fun of it last year in his novel Bleeding Edge.

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

“Dark possibilities are beginning to emerge,” he writes at one point in Bleeding Edge.

From The Daily Beast

Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.

From The Daily Beast