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stropped

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verb

past tense of strop
as in stoned
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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sharp
Adjective
  • There has been a sharp rise in the demand for high-bandwidth memory, which is utilized alongside GPUs for AI applications, leading to a nearly 50% sequential increase in HBM memory revenue over the last quarter as production scales up.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Visual China Group | Getty Images China's manufacturing activity in May shrank at its fastest pace since September 2022, a private survey showed Tuesday, as a sharper decline in new export orders highlighted the impact of prohibitive U.S. tariffs.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 June 2025
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“Stropped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stropped. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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