as in advanced
being or employing the latest concepts, styles, or techniques
his insistent tracking shots and rapid-fire pacing earned him a reputation as a cutting-edge filmmaker
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
1
as in vanguard
the innovators of new concepts, styles, and techniques especially in the arts
an urban enclave that has an established reputation for being hospitable to artists who are part of the cutting edge
Synonyms & Similar Words
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
as in forefront
the leading or most important part of a movement
a company that has always been on the cutting edge of the new electronic media
Synonyms & Similar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of cutting-edge
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Set in the Balkan margins at the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, the film explores how much magic and fiction a cutting-edge universe can take in.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Now, brands founded and fed by Latinx leaders are among some of the industry’s most revolutionary, harkening back to tradition and creating cutting edge new techniques, many simultaneously.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cutting-edge
Adjective
The mission by Redwing will also demonstrate the capabilities of cutting-edge oceanographic technology.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Set in the Balkan margins at the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, the film explores how much magic and fiction a cutting-edge universe can take in.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
Astronomer David Kipping has built a career not just at the cutting edge of exoplanet research but also at the forefront of science communication.
—Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Now, brands founded and fed by Latinx leaders are among some of the industry’s most revolutionary, harkening back to tradition and creating cutting edge new techniques, many simultaneously.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cutting-edge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutting-edge
Adjective
-
According to the research team, the XICS is equipped with an advanced calibration system designed to provide accurate measurements through changes in plasma density and temperature.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
-
Other companies, from Amazon to Uber, are also investing in technologies that automate safety-critical tasks, whether through advanced driver assistance systems or fully autonomous vehicles.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
The oysterman has been catapulted onto the national stage as part of a vanguard of progressive, young candidates who have gained widespread support by appealing to working class voters.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
16 Oct. 2025
-
The San Francisco 49ers, vanguards of the outside zone run game, cannot run the ball.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
Since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, Chinese stories have increasingly included nods to Chinese nationalist (not just communist) soldiers fighting bravely, thus placing a strong, victorious, and morally righteous China at the forefront of the postwar global order.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Oct. 2025
-
On one hand, winning another chip will be at the forefront, so managing players toward the end of the regular season would be logical.—
Stan Son,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
-
Its politics tend to be a battle between center-left and progressive factions, subsidized by the stratospheric wealth of policy-shaping tech and real-estate billionaires.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
-
Political observers say Sheffield’s achievements are notable for a council member who was more progressive and radical in her ideas in a city with a strong-mayor form of government and law department that serves both the mayor and the council.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
Unlike the neo-Leninist underground, moreover, dissidents had no desire to revive Bolshevik revolutionary traditions, with their ideological discipline, armed conspiracy, and noms de guerre.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
-
Burnham Yard also is near an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site for radium contamination, but the Terracon report did not find any indication that there is a substantial amount of radioactive material underground.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
Once again, Berners-Lee seemed to be on history’s leading edge.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
-
For the pair of galaxies, the hot gas cloud of ionized gas, filled with free electrons and which stretches for millions of light years around the cluster is like tumbling into a vat of treacle that then begins to scour the gas on the leading edge of the infalling galaxies, ablating it.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
-
This plant was ambitious and pioneering; the team in South Carolina solved infections, yield loss and the operational complexity of a brand-new biomanufacturing process.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
-
But for now, enzymatic recycling plants remain pioneering.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
On the fashion front, Schumacher, which was founded in New York by Parisian Frederic Schumacher in 1889, has been a pioneer in collaborations from its dawn.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
-
Windridge said discussions about fusion’s future and possible arrival always remind her of a quote attributed to the Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich, an early fusion pioneer.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Cutting-edge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutting-edge. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share