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

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

In other words, it’s less a dip starter than a shortcut to onion-forward umami.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

That shortcut should be reserved for situations where there is no observable transaction between a willing buyer and a willing seller.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Most of the scholars didn’t even know it was there, but the librarians did, because they used it as a shortcut between the stacks and the reading rooms in the base of the tower.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor