go short
Example Sentences
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Moving the advertising boards and reducing the run-in space might persuade a team to go short more often.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
"The macro is signalling you to sell or go short, but you'd be very cautious because of the ability of a short market to bite back," said Bhar.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2022
“Our mandate is to find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them,” he would explain.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
What do you have to go short with?
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2022
I used to wonder if the Lord's temper ever did go short.'
From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard