shortest

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Dubai crude, which is in shortest supply, already topped $150 last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Here on the shortest winter days sunrise did not occur until around 10:00 in some places, resulting in darker mornings and a rise in serious road casualties.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

When you think about your work and your company, Complexly, you don’t want to squish it down to the shortest version, right?

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

The shortest month of the year came with plenty of drama for the stock market.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger