shy
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And the dense paperwork included an out-of-this-world projected total addressable market for SpaceX at $28.5 trillion, just a few trillion dollars shy of the entire U.S. gross domestic product.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude, nearly doubled to just shy of $113 a barrel on April 7 from about $67 a barrel on Feb. 27, the day before the war began.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
This is where cuts that are a few days shy of their sell-by date go to await a second act.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
Though she was beautiful, she was very shy - "what we call šedá myška, a little grey mouse".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
This really shy girl, Poppy, came up with our app.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Scrabble: Words with no Vowels
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myPerspectives 6.2
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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