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What does trenchant mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
  2. (figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe.
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So, in the spirit of giving till it hurts, let me offer up to the least deserving of us my annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant.
There are two vocal items, a wordless vocalise with flute and guitar and a trenchant, highly effective group of eight Haiku, a minute each.
A quiet and generally even tempered man, he could be and was trenchant in his criticisms as the occasion demanded.
In doing so, he subjects central tenets of modern economics to trenchant criticism.
What makes his books so popular is that he presents what he does find in a singularly trenchant and forthright manner.
The drama has many trenchant things to say about New Labour's obsession with style over substance.

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