shortcut

Example Sentences

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For more than 40 years, train passengers arriving into Aberdeen looking for a shortcut into the city centre have faced a notoriously tiring 32-step climb.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

“You can spend huge amounts of money on satellites, but you cannot shortcut spectrum and licensing in the same way,” Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum Equities, told MarketWatch via email.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

What emerges isn’t a shortcut so much as a shift in architecture.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

This isn’t the first time that someone has tried to use AI as a shortcut, with parlous consequences.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Dad had devised a shortcut: an enormous skewer, eight feet tall, of thick iron.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover