shortest

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Dubai crude, which is in shortest supply, already topped $150 last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

They also had their shortest gap between seasons of just 35 days.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

When you think about your work and your company, Complexly, you don’t want to squish it down to the shortest version, right?

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

"This equation shows that in a quantum spacetime, particles do not always move exactly along the shortest path between two points, as the classical geodesic equation would predict."

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

We got Mehrabon, a non-Reza Ali, and Behruz, who was the shortest kid there but had the darkest mustache.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram