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Chanos short-sells, betting that a contract will go down, applying pressure if necessary, including his famous shorting of Enron.

That's why so many hedge funds began shorting any stock connected to the housing market.

A hedge fund manager no one had ever heard of, Paulson took home $3.7 billion for himself shorting subprime mortgages.

It looked for all the world like the flash of a live power line shorting out.

Brion's shots crashed into the control board, shorting and destroying it, removing the menace to Nyjord for all time.

She heard the low sound of the light ashes falling on the hearth, and the shorting breath of a dog.

He seized me with his grapples and shook me until my wiring was in danger of shorting out.

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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shorting, such as: afford, allow, give, grant, provide, and save.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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