- comparative of sharp.
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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“We’re optimistic that new leadership can bend the curve on traffic, but remain realistic that direct competitors have also gotten noticeably sharper, and the planned initiatives will take time to bear fruit,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
China’s factories are showing new signs of weakness, risking a sharper slowdown in growth—though not enough, it appears, to push Beijing into delivering major new stimulus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Lorie Logan, the third dissenting vote and president of the Dallas Fed, also issued a statement on Friday, agreeing with the need for "modest action" now to reduce the need for potentially sharper hikes later.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Half of Americans report feeling divided from one another; a recent Stanford study gives this fracture a sharper name: the “empathy perception gap.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
His eyes were brighter in the morning light; more blues, sharper browns.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Among the marks and sharpers — and sometimes one person is both — there are heroes and villains.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
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
Those on the ground could see very little; they knew even less about the progress of the matches than the wet sharpers at Epsom Downs knew about the Derby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marine and railroad companies beg passengers to beware of sharpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be better to say he is skinned by sharpers.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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