shortcut

Example Sentences

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“You can spend huge amounts of money on satellites, but you cannot shortcut spectrum and licensing in the same way,” Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum Equities, told MarketWatch via email.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

What emerges isn’t a shortcut so much as a shift in architecture.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

You probably know it already — you’ve seen oil pumpjacks laboring away in nutty places, like on the La Cienega Boulevard shortcut through Baldwin Hills to the airport.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

As a shortcut, I believe only the negative ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

If she were walking down the sidewalk, it would’ve looked like she was taking a shortcut.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti