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short

[shawrt] / ʃɔrt /




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crumbly
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Revenue fell 11% to $3.97 billion, short of the mean analyst estimate of $4.15 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the short term, CNN and Skydance’s CBS News are operating independently under their current leadership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

These were all short term and probationary and my priority was to look after my mother.''

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The former Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos star, who retired from professional football in 2016, has invested millions in properties, including a sprawling Colorado mansion and a second residence just a short distance away.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

His nap had been cut short and he was deeply, inexplicably exhausted.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Attendees, many in shorts, went on 15-minute “speed dating” sessions under a massive tent on the beach with fund managers and other companies that touted their offerings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some mechanical derisking saw those funds decrease long positions and increase shorts or bets against stocks last week, likely to “preserve what has been a good year,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

It made one of the first AI-animated shorts, “Critterz,” using OpenAI’s software and planned to help make a movie based on it, but OpenAI pulled out of the project and canceled its video-making AI model.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Evidence provided by Adidas included side-by-side comparisons of its products with White Fox clothes which include sweatpants and lounge shorts, as well as images of billboards on buses and at bus stops.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Zeke pulled up the leg of his shorts to make sure his knee and France were okay.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

Together, the slower rate of cell division, simpler cell structures, and shorter window for rapid growth help explain why the marmoset brain produces fewer neurons and develops far fewer folds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

“A shorter commitment and greater flexibility over issuance composition would better position it to respond to rising borrowing needs or a changing case for long-end issuance,” it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

A similar pattern emerged among adults who worked longer hours, who tended to consume more coffee than those with shorter work schedules.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

She had planned to meet them in London to travel to Somerset together, but can now arrange simpler and shorter journeys from their own respective homes.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Dr. Yee explains that this is because the days are getting shorter, so we have to make the most of the daylight hours.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Florida firefighter sets record as shortest woman in profession.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Banton then took on the charge, clubbing four sixes in his 24-ball knock as England remain unbeaten in the shortest format this summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

A hike at the two-day meeting ending Friday would come just three months after the central bank’s last rate increase in June, marking the shortest interval since it exited negative rates in March 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Lauer had given up more than three runs in just two other outings since the Dodgers acquired him from the Blue Jays in mid-May, and Tuesday marked his shortest start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger


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