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Word: supersharpness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Usage:

...light of revelation, news that the Hubble Space Telescope was flawed appeared to be an unmitigated disaster. Because the telescope's main light-focusing mirror had been precision ground to the wrong specifications, the U.S. had evidently spent $1.5 billion on an instrument that may never take the promised supersharp pictures of the heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Who Needs the Hubble? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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