shortcut

Example Sentences

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"It's basically a shortcut," explains Adrian Bayer a cosmologist at the Flatiron Institute and Princeton University, co-author of the study.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

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

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

If a recipe offered a shortcut, I generally regarded it with suspicion.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Even with a shortcut along the lakeside, I'm running just barely in front of the sirens and won't have a chance to widen the gap before I reach my family's house.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu