How to Use cutting edge in a Sentence

cutting edge

noun
  • He's a director who tries to keep his films right on the cutting edge.
  • Learn to embrace them and adapt to them to remain on the cutting edge.
    Melanie Fine, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Take the pastry server, with its sharp cutting edge on the left side.
    CBS News, 6 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a lot of history mixed in with a lot of modern and cutting edge things in the city.
    Josh Chesler, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • That bumps the Nanooks down to No. 16 and right on the cutting edge for the national tournament.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The bit is comprised of a cutting edge with a rounded shape and a bearing that sits below the blade.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The most common method is to bring the ends of your fingers into the blade’s cutting edge and pluck it at a slight angle.
    Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • Next, workers drill the hole in both halves along with the cutting edges and the knurl, the small teeth-like structures that improve pliers’ grip.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • For the first time, people had direct access to this cutting edge tech.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The home side was missing all-time 60-goal top scorer Edin Dzeko through injury and lacked a cutting edge.
    Jerome Pugmire, ajc, 13 Nov. 2021
  • But non-invasive procedures on the face are more—pardon the pun—on the cutting edge.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • While a known classic, eggnog can also be cutting edge.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Sharpen mower blades when the cutting edges begin to dull.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The team are always pushing to remain at the cutting edge of what’s possible.
    Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • But others acknowledge Google has lost many of its top AI researchers in the last year to start-ups seen as cutting edge.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Trippie Redd is one of the brightest lights of the first wave of SoundCloud rap, the scene of boundary-pushing, genre-flouting teenagers who were on the cutting edge of music in the mid-2010s.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
  • End the night with a few cool cocktails at the restaurant’s cutting edge cocktail bar Mayahuel, hidden on the lower level.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The products consumers get from us are cutting edge and best performing.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In a city which lacks a top-notch gym, the bank’s vault will have cutting edge treatments including cryotherapy.
    Sarah Turner, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Measure against the lowest portion of the cutting edge for precision depths.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
  • RB Leipzig, which made the final four in that strange, ghostly pandemic tournament in 2020, seemed like a team from the cutting edge, too.
    New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Check out some of the amazing, cutting edge works by contemporary and modern artists.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Because the cutting edge and part being cut are not rigid, the force can cause unwanted vibration.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But the promise of smart clothing is clear: a fusion of function, fashion and health ready to wear on the cutting edge of technology.
    Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Especially because teams like to poach from teams that flourish on the cutting edge.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Green said students will get the education needed to work on the cutting edge of agribusiness and dairy sciences.
    Keith Ridler, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Chinese firms, on the other hand, are not yet able to make these cutting edge chips—and current U.S. policy is to stop them from catching up.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Stand out and stay on the cutting edge of the industry while making your podcast a worthwhile investment.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Go-getters and creative individuals love to be on the cutting edge of things.
    Expert Panel, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021

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