shortcut

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He was later fined for taking a shortcut home by leaving Paisley with his family rather than travelling on the team bus back to Leith.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Supplements can have a role in healthy ageing, but they are not a shortcut.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

“The blood test is not a shortcut for the average person,” Pasricha said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The shortcut of intelligence to make new associations that are not instinctive is minimally available.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel