as in sharpens
to make sharp or sharper
at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades
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The fact that fishing nets were found in these same deep-sea survey areas sharpens the urgency of that designation.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026 -
That context sharpens what India is doing.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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As the war grinds through another bitterly cold winter, Russian strikes hit an apartment block Wednesday on the outskirts of Kyiv, killing two people.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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As the war grinds through another bitterly cold winter, Russian strikes hit an apartment block Wednesday on the outskirts of Kyiv, killing two people.—
Kamila Hrabchuk,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Dunbar edges Western Hills Fort Worth Dunbar got 17 points from Mariah Walker as the Wildcats toppled Fort Worth Western Hills 37-27 on Tuesday night in a District 8-4A game.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Feb. 2026
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Bridging the Divide The program dealt with networks of nodes and edges called graphs.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Strops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strops. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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