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  2. Leveling and sharpening - Wikipedia

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    Leveling and sharpening are two functions that are automatic and exist within memory. Sharpening is usually the way people remember small details in the retelling of stories they have experienced or are retelling those stories. Leveling is when people keep out parts of stories and try to tone those stories down so that some parts are excluded ...

  3. Precision questioning - Wikipedia

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    Precision questioning (PQ), an intellectual toolkit for critical thinking and for problem solving, grew out of a collaboration between Dennis Matthies (1946- ) and Dr. Monica Worline, while both taught/studied [when?] at Stanford University.

  4. Sharpening - Wikipedia

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    A hand-held tungsten carbide knife sharpener, with a finger guard, can be used for sharpening plain and serrated edges on pocket knives and multi-tools.. Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a blade, the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting.

  5. Pencil sharpener - Wikipedia

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    A manual prism sharpener generates long fan-shaped shavings Video of a mechanical pencil sharpener, showing gearing and helical sharpening blades video showing a manual prism sharpener A pencil sharpener (or pencil pointer , or in Ireland a parer or topper [ 1 ] ) is a tool for sharpening a pencil 's writing point by shaving away its worn surface.

  6. Field training exercise - Wikipedia

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    In the Army and often in other branches, the last few days of basic training are used to conduct a field training exercise where recruits can practice the skills they have learned over the past several weeks of training. The 101st Airborne Division is famous for its field training exercises. Most of its brigades or regiments conduct their own ...

  7. Chef's knife - Wikipedia

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    In order to improve the chef's knife's multi-purpose abilities, some users employ differential sharpening along the length of the blade. The fine tip, used for precision work such as mincing, might be ground with a very sharp, acute cutting bevel; the midsection or belly of the blade receives a moderately sharp edge for general cutting ...

  8. People skills - Wikipedia

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    People skills are patterns of behavior and behavioral interactions. Among people, it is an umbrella term for skills under three related set of abilities: personal effectiveness, interaction skills, and intercession skills. [ 1 ]

  9. Childhood development of fine motor skills - Wikipedia

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    Fine motor skills are the coordination of small muscle movements which occur e.g., in the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. In application to motor skills of hands (and fingers) the term dexterity is commonly used. The term 'dexterity' is defined by Latash and Turrey (1996) as a 'harmony in movements' (p. 20).