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the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England
the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy - the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife
How To Use cutting edge In A Sentence
- A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
- Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
- The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
- If you still hanker for the cutting edge of gaming then ferret yourself away in a study with one of these beasts. Times, Sunday Times
- So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
- The decor at Cargill's is pleasant, if unmemorable and far from cutting edge, but that helps lend an approachable tone to the whole establishment.
- The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
- Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
- Further multilateral agreements to control nuclear weapons were both welcome to CND and blunted its cutting edge.
- They went through phases with no real cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times