sell short
Example Sentences
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To duplicate that return yourself, you would need to buy the highest-momentum stocks and simultaneously sell short an equal dollar amount of the biggest losers.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026
That could help lift the stock, which may now be being held back as arbitrageurs buy Lennar and sell short Millrose to capture a favorable spread of about 6% on the deal.
From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025
We underestimate how pleasant the exchange will be—for us and for our counterpart—and sell short our conversational chops.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
The first way that shorts benefit from stock watering is that millions of new shares become available to sell short.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024
He was shocked how much easier and cheaper it was to buy a credit default swap than it was to sell short an actual cash bond—even though they represented exactly the same bet.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
