shortcut

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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

“There is no shortcut to real innovation,” Bartlett said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

And that was in a circular patch of red volcanic chips that hurt Dell's feet, even when he wore thick-soled shoes and was just trying to take a shortcut to the always- strange-smelling stairwell.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan