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

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

The shortest month of the year came with plenty of drama for the stock market.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

It is to get a car around a race track in the shortest possible time.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

His were the feelings of a point in geometry, existing mysteriously on the shortest distance between two points: or of a line, drawn on a plane surf act v/hich had length, breadth but no magnitude.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White