shortcut

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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

Sweeping out everybody over a certain age is an administrative shortcut dressed up as a solution.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

For more than 40 years, train passengers arriving into Aberdeen looking for a shortcut into the city centre have faced a notoriously tiring 32-step climb.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

They crossed a stubble-field to shortcut to the barn.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck