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

Currently Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, has no fully electric vehicles on sale in the U.S., but it does sell three plug-in gas-electric hybrids that can go short distances on battery power.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

To bet against a stock's price, or go short, hedge funds pay fees to borrow the stock and post assets as collateral with the banks, meant to act as insurance against default.

From Reuters • May 24, 2023

“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

"Heaps of ways," the chief said, "but those shortest ways—sure to go short ways, so as to pass over ground quickly."

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)