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The 40-page report summarized the firm’s short position in a simple thesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
One of his students used generative AI tools to create an animated short, which led to multiple industry meetings and job offers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The company demonstrated its EH216-S aircraft with a short flight, carrying Ports and Aviation Minister Anura Karunathilaka and his deputy Janitha Ruwan Kodithuwakku as the first passengers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
The evening’s activity had to be kept brief because the city now had electricity only a short while each night, and candles had to be hoarded for emergencies.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Although the cold is expected to fade quickly, capping the rally, “the shorts are still being forced to cover so today could be a wild ride.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Next, the roles were reversed: Senegalese wrestlers put on traditional burlap shorts to try their hand at Swiss wrestling, with the Swiss avenging their earlier defeat.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The judges object to him playing the part of a lawyer in his regulation-brown prison shorts, his feet bare and shackled.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
He’s in a plaid button-down and long shorts that stop above a leg tattoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
I change into a pair of shorts and swap my red winter jacket for a freshly laundered sweatshirt.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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However, the whole Ford Digital Experience has a shorter learning curve than you might expect.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
The findings show how decades of observations can reveal connections that shorter studies might miss.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
It might be that the game has evolved to become more grueling, that teams are averaging more possessions per game, that possessions are shorter and that defenders are picking up ball-handlers sooner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
He expects customers to demand clear business cases and shorter payback periods, and to run fewer open-ended experiments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Then slowly build up from shorter 4-beat improvisations to 8-beat ones.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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“Customers are unwilling to make commitments to anything other than the shortest term due to the vast uncertainty.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
But what if a computer needed to calculate the shortest distance between every possible pair of locations in an enormous network?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Reed's 40-day tenure was the shortest in Premier League history for almost two decades, until Sam Allardyce took that record in 2022-23 with a 30-day spell at Leeds United that ended in relegation.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
For a politician to tell voters that his parents met in a ma’abarah is the shortest way to say, “I am one of you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
I stare at my square of sky until I drift into what feels like the shortest sleep of my life.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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