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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sharpens in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sharpens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of sharpens in a Sentence

  1. Rudy Giuliani:

    Look, you never know. It sharpens up all our answers then, then we're not guessing at what The President knows. We know whether to say it or not.

  2. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

    Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

  3. Edmund Burke:

    He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

  4. Book of Proverbs:

    As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.

  5. Thomas Fuller:

    Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

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