🗓️ Idiom: Cutting Edge (adj)
💬 Meaning
- The most advanced or modern part of something.
- It means using the latest technology or ideas.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Our team is working on a cutting-edge AI system for data analysis.
- This software uses cutting-edge features that no other tool offers.
- Staying at the cutting edge of technology helps us stay ahead of competitors.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase originally described the sharpest part of a tool — the cutting edge. In business and technology, it now refers to the newest and most advanced ideas, methods, or products.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
This company is known for producing __________ software solutions.
Answer
cutting-edge
2. Choose the correct meaning of “cutting edge”:
A) Basic and outdated
B) Expensive but common
C) Very advanced or modern
D) Slow and safe
Answer
C) Very advanced or modern
3. Rewrite the sentence using “cutting edge”
“Their latest tool uses the most modern technology.”
Answer
Their latest tool uses cutting-edge technology.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
