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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are sharpened" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the action of making something sharper, often in a literal or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The pencils are sharpened and ready for the students to use during the exam."
Alternatives: "have been sharpened" or "are honed".
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This season the show's views are sharpened and tighter.
Your laptop is charged, your pencils are sharpened, and your highlighters are loaded.
Creativity will always flourish when the senses are sharpened by extremes.
"The knives of plaintiffs' lawyers are sharpened when it comes to online litigation".
He's more forthcoming about how the company's blades, once made, are sharpened.
All are sharpened at the bottom so that they suggest spears.
Professor Lockwood has studied something more rudimentary: how skate blades are sharpened.
Thereafter, images are filtered, and, in this way, clusters are sharpened, background noise is mitigated, and scale is adjusted.
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Others are sharpening their focus.
And critics are sharpening their knives.
Now men are sharpening up again.
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