sharper
Americannoun
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a shrewd swindler.
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a professional gambler.
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But that agreement can obscure a much sharper divergence.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
The innovation produces sharper images in less time and can be integrated into existing MRI systems rather than requiring entirely new machines.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The company has begun consulting customers on its long-term strategy, asking whether they would prefer gradual rises over time or a sharper increase upfront to deliver quicker improvements.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Such imbalances create a “wobbling” global trade system that in a crisis may lead to sharper swings in debt levels, capital flows and currency values—“the stuff of economists’ nightmares.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
His teeth were bared and his clawlike fingernails suddenly became longer and sharper, like talons.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Among the marks and sharpers — and sometimes one person is both — there are heroes and villains.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Arrived there, he was preparing to push on to Portland, Ore. when two sharpers bilked him of his bankroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
While authorities debated who should raid the gang's headquarters, the sharpers fled with 10,000 printed letters yet unmailed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The German bar steward, forced to retire on a meagre pension after 44 years, card sharpers, suckers, autograph hunters, pompous people all make copy for him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearly all of them are interspersed with verses; in their themes they range from the “misticall” wonders of the heavens to the familiar but “pernitious sleights” of the sharpers of London.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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