short
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Anything short of that wouldn’t justify Norway’s long wait, Ryerson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Within a short time of speaking to this man, dozens more people came forward, many showing similar phone pictures.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
But over the short and even intermediate terms, lasting not just several years but decades, gold’s correlation to inflation is unstable.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
“Your legacy is not what you did in the short term, it’s for what you did in the long term.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Betsie’s breath was coming short and hard and still they yelled at us to go faster.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing short
Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 8-10
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