bleeding-edge

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Modern & fashionable
ahead of timephrase
be (all) the rageidiom
be having a momentidiom
futuristic
futuristically
get with the programmeidiom
go ahead
granola
happening
sleekly
sleekness
smartly
smartness
snappily
the avant-garde
up to date
up-to-the-minuteidiom
way-out
with it
à la mode

cutting edge | American Dictionary

cutting edge
noun[ U ]
us/ˈkʌt̬·ɪŋ ˈedʒ/
the most recent stage in the development of something:
His research is at the cutting edge of new therapies for cancer.

cutting edge | Business English

cutting edge
noun[ S ]
ukus
something that gives someone or something an advantage over others:
Employees need to develop the necessary skills to maintain a cutting edge in technological advance.
 the cutting edge (of sth)
the most recent and advanced stage of development in a particular type of work or activity, with the newest systems, equipment, etc.:
We want to be at the cutting edge of this technology.
Video games companies are always on the cutting edge in terms of the graphics.
cutting-edge
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˌkʌtɪŋˈedʒ/us
very modern, and with all the newest features:
cutting-edge companies/designs/products

Examples of the cutting edge

the cutting edge
This is an ambitious book, which aims to pull together cutting-edge research in formal semantics, lexical aspect, and event structure.
These women sought cutting-edge information based on ' scientific' evidence, and also consulted specialists such as aestheticians, medical doctors and personal trainers.
This important and highly impressive volume is intended as an overview of cutting-edge developments in microeconomics for graduate students.
Spectacle, by contrast, relies on novelty; when it ceases to be cutting-edge, its effects quickly begin to appear faded and tawdry.
The remaining two chapters of the book deal with cutting-edge research.
Today transport phenomena in plasma physics cover s a wide range of topics that are at the cutting-edge of current research.
It contributes, as the notes on the back cover claim, to a cutting-edge research topic.
Sophisticated, cutting-edge laboratory experiments are crucial to providing these data - now and in the future.
They also valued new, cutting-edge information and enjoyed acquiring such information in social contexts such as extension field days and conversations with other farmers.
The medical establishment is described as a military command, with cutting-edge researchers in the vanguard against disease and public health workers in the trenches.
This comes close to cutting-edge, sociological, critical constructivism.
I was frustrated with psychological drama, and bored with so-called cutting-edge theatre.
This is an area in which some of the most perplexing, confounding, and cutting-edge issues arise with regularity.
Libraries should endeavour to stock it, but not if this conflicts with buying cutting-edge science.
This collective submission takes place in an environment where the use of biometrics and other cutting-edge surveillance technologies are already a reality.
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