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The phrase 'need to be sharpened' is correct and usable when referring to a need for improvement or sharpening of a skill, ability, or capacity.
For example, "If we are going to succeed in this business, our negotiation skills need to be sharpened."
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That will need to be sharpened up.
That suggests the new tools need to be sharpened.
If estimated rates are required, incentives to report accurately need to be sharpened.
But other ways to finance projects and encourage local and foreign funds also need to be sharpened up.
They do need to be sharpened more often, and they can't be left in the sink overnight.
Those tools still need to be sharpened with other useful intelligence, said Mark Rasch, a former federal prosecutor who worked on investigations in domestic and international criminal cases.
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For too long, his screen has been frozen, his functions have been locked up and his circuits have been in a cramp just as the Knicks need to be sharpening their preparations for the playoffs.
The slack, colorless dialogue especially needs to be sharpened.
Although the industry's advertising revenue has continued to grow, its "brand needed to be sharpened," she added, to help "transform the medium into a stronger competitor".
If the main point is that real audiences are manipulated and given a sense of false participation, it needs to be sharpened.
A couple of times a year, an old Italian man who had a knife-and-tool-sharpening business in his van would come to the back door and ask if anything needed to be sharpened.
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needs to be sharpened
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