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Also, on the cutting edge. In the forefront, in a position of greatest advantage or importance. For example, In my youth I was at the cutting edge of medical research, or Our company is on the cutting edge of gene therapy. This metaphoric phrase alludes to the sharp edge of a knife or other cutting tool. [c. 1950]

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How to use cutting edge, at the in a sentence

Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
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Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.
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"It is good to pray here," she said, in a tone the mildness and sincerity of which made the reproach more cutting.
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Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
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