Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
Синонимы
Examples for "sharp"
Examples for "sharp"
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The new measures follow a sharp increase in cases in recent days.
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Hard; sheep or goat; blue-veined; sharp; tangy; from Tigne Valley in Savoy.
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Semisoft; white; creamy; sharp; historic since the time of the Merovingian kings.
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Late yesterday, the recent sharp volatility of the New York market continued.
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Local media have reported sharp divisions within the government on the issue.
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China also joined the effort, cutting its key rate 27 basis points.
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The outcome was inevitable: cost-cutting measures were introduced, which mean job losses.
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Such consolidation would help firms to develop new products while cutting costs.
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This is cutting into oil industry revenues, and consequently oil industry royalties.
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The same would be true for any future deficit-cutting agreement, he said.
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Given the opportunity, and state government intentions, they're keen to encourage visitors.
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Europe in particular will be keen to near-source as much as possible.
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He said companies were extremely keen to take on the new technology.
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Our group is really keen to challenge themselves and accept the challenge.
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Of course I am. The Nationals' coalition partners are certainly not keen.
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However, he rejected suggestions that the problem was particularly acute in Westmeath.
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Main outcome measure: Two year survival after onset of acute lung injury.
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He said water and sanitation needs remained acute for many affected villages.
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Reuters reported last week that the problem is particularly acute in Belize.
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North Korea battles acute food shortages even in years with good harvests.
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He felt good; he had never enjoyed penetrating a woman so much.
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Gamma radiation is the most penetrating and energetic form of nuclear radiation.
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She gave them a penetrating look and came all the way in.
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He can't find a way of penetrating the system as it stands.
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Evelyn grew more interested; the rite was full of a penetrating mystery.
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A lot of violence, a lot of shootings and stabbing, I think.
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The stabbing victim was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a critical condition.
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Rupert then set me to try stabbing in various positions and postures.
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She blinked at the strong stream of light stabbing right at her.
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He never said a word, just walked in and began stabbing people.
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However, the railway denied today that it was discriminating against its workers.
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Opposition politicians have criticised the government for discriminating against Israel's non-Jewish minorities.
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Religious employers will also be more restricted in discriminating on religious grounds.
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Results: The nomogram was developed and found to be accurate and discriminating.
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A more discriminating therapy was needed, especially for cancers that were nonlocalized.
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Acute in thought and incisive in speech, he is a fluent talker.
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It was resonant, far-reaching, incisive; but it rang abruptly and without mellowness.
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His utterance was incisive; his voice, eager and quick, filled the room.
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The diffident girl had suddenly assumed the incisive strength of observant womanhood.
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I'm sure that it was rather perceptive and incisive, whatever it was.
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That trio form also provide a penetrative and versatile pace bowling attack.
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It's a deep, penetrative cold, but perhaps you get used to it.
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On the flipside, most men achieve orgasm and ejaculation with penetrative sex.
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Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
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Verily, this is from the penetrative power of the Word of God!
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He reached in, and his hand emerged with a knifelike letter opener.
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Here she cached all of her treasure except a single knifelike sliver.
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With age, her delicate beauty had hardened into something knifelike and more defining.
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Beside another lamp was a knifelike object, carved out of bone.
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The flame guttered and rose to a knifelike orange point.
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Some pain of a lancinating type occurred in the breast at this time.
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Those named later become tender, and the seat of lancinating or shooting pains.
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There in that lancinating cold, in an ecstasy of rage, despairfully he poised over it.
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She only knew they beat upon her with the cruel, lancinating sharpness of hail driven by the wind.
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There came over me a sense of sickly faintness, accompanied with acute, lancinating pains in the head and neck.
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Those named later become tender, and the seat of lancinating or shooting pains.
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She only knew they beat upon her with the cruel, lancinating sharpness of hail driven by the wind.
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There came over me a sense of sickly faintness, accompanied with acute, lancinating pains in the head and neck.
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She sighed, half with lancinating regret, and half in gentle disdain of that mercurial creature aged less than thirty.
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Perhaps never before, only once in any case, did I experience an excitement so lancinating as I experienced that day.
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A piercing chill grew in the dead air; the silence was terrifying.
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The trees break the wind that is so piercing in the clearings.
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For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
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Suddenly I had a clear and piercing thought that supplanted every imagining.
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It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency.
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It was heavy steel with a narrow point, meant for piercing armor.
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Verena suddenly shrieked; and her piercing cry might have reached the front.
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Rose uttered a piercing cry, and pointed in terror to the window.
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The piercing groans and cries which followed showed the terrible effect produced.
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She had heard that piercing ring of smitten brass in the Serapeum.
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A chorus of piercing yells rose in answer from the deck outside.
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The gaze she bent upon him was almost piercing in its intensity.
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There was a piercing look in the eyes he fixed upon her.
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The old chief stirred in his furred robe beneath that piercing gaze.
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The soundtrack could only be heard as a single, long, piercing howl.
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The window still stood wide open, the white, piercing moonlight streamed in.
