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

The idea was to give investors a practical shortcut because they often lack information to do the fair-value measurements themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Chacko took the shortcut through the tilting rubber trees so that he would have to walk only a very short stretch down the main road to Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s house.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy