Synonyms for double-edged
dou·ble-edged

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1. double-edgedadjective

   Antonyms:
   single-edged

2. double-edgedadjective

   Antonyms:
   single-edged

3. double-edgedadjective

   Slander is a double-edged weapon: you can hurt the reputation of another but it diminishes your own reputation that you debase yourself so much.

   Antonyms:
   single-edged

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1. double-edgedadjective

   capable of being interpreted in two usually contradictory ways

   "double-edged praise"

   Antonyms:
   unambiguous

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1. List of paraphrases for "double-edged":

   two-edged, ambivalent

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1. President Trump:

   Testing is a double-edged sword, weve tested now 25 million people. Its probably 20 million people more than anybody else ... Heres the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people, youre going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down -- please.

2. Kimberly Gudzune:

   The excitement about these medications are, right now, a little bit of a double-edged sword that I’m glad that people are excited and feel like they have a treatment option for their obesity that would really be meaningful.

3. Asher Weinberger:

   Everything is a double-edged sword, the sharing economy has done so much for the world and for people. On the other hand, there is an underbelly of that. There's a dark side of that, like everything in life, right ?

4. Wu Ting-Fang:

   Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

5. Kirby Smart:

   They’ve got really good skill players on the outside, they know how to use those skill players, they put them in different positions, change things up. Brian Robinson, seems like he’s been there for 100 years and he is physical, runs with purpose, intent, a traditional Alabama back. They do a good job, especially against Cincinnati of committing to the run. It’s a double-edged sword. You do too much of this, they can hurt you.