sharper
Americannoun
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sharpers
plural
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a shrewd swindler.
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a professional gambler.
noun
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Origin of sharper
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As the buildout becomes more debt-financed, leverage and funding costs are coming into sharper focus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
And once you swallow that bitter truth, it’ll be much easier to take a sharper eye to their content, which seems endless.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
They also provide sharper images of particle tracks than conventional plastic detectors that require chemical etching.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Their lyrics also carry more righteous fire than before, with sharper lines that cut right to the indignation they feel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone— I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
Among the marks and sharpers — and sometimes one person is both — there are heroes and villains.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Among the newshawks, photographers, gawkers and sharpers who hurried to the sleepy village of Callander, Ont. at the end of May 1554 was a Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the home there are sometimes sharpers; never at a reputable club.
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
Give me my passport," cried I, at last, "and let me quit your little rascally territory of spies and sharpers.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
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