as in to circumvent
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness
are you sure there's no way to shortcut the entrance requirements?
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Recent Examples of shortcut
Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 Sep. 2024
Lastly, the large touchpad includes Smart Gesture support, which supports three-finger and four-finger shortcuts the user can customize.
—Christopher Null, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Second, this lack of clarity creates a permission structure for mental shortcuts and binary thinking instead of cultivating the analytical reasoning that health decisions require.
—Brooke Redmond, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
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Verb
What better shortcut than an oh-so-convenient makeup set?
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 Sep. 2024
Lastly, the large touchpad includes Smart Gesture support, which supports three-finger and four-finger shortcuts the user can customize.
—Christopher Null, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
Noun
There are no good answers yet, though, and rushing with undue haste to Mars could result in shortcuts being taken that could greatly increase the risk of contaminating Mars with terrestrial microbes.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Second, this lack of clarity creates a permission structure for mental shortcuts and binary thinking instead of cultivating the analytical reasoning that health decisions require.
—Brooke Redmond, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortcut
Verb
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The legal battle gained further attention when, on February 7, a federal appeals court ruled on a procedural matter in the investigation, which had initially considered whether McMahon had circumvented WWE's internal controls to hide these allegations.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Other countries under sanctions – Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela – have previously employed clandestine shipping networks to circumvent international scrutiny and sanctions.—
Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The cutoff for the top 100 is $2.03 billion (San Diego Padres).—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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To provide a wind-down period, compounders have until at least April 22 to stop selling copycat versions before the agency starts enforcing the cutoff.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Expanding categorical exclusions would allow low-risk projects to bypass NEPA’s unnecessary analysis requirements.—
James Broughel,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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The complaint, which was joined by Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, argued that Trump was trying to bypass the U.S. Constitution to deny citizenship to tens of thousands of unborn children.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Trump has stated that his interest in purchasing—or even taking over—the Danish territory was driven by the frequent passage of Russian and Chinese merchant vessels and warships through Arctic routes close to Greenland.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
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Among the five top options is a yellow route that would largely circumvent the Del Mar Fairgrounds and city of Del Mar.—
Gqlshare,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In a post on X, the NYPD asked people to avoid the area as the investigation proceeded.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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While Janice avoids even visiting Eric in prison, she is torn between cleaning out his room and grappling with the role of faith and religion.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The road is closed from Blue Ridge Cut Off/Exit 9 to Sterling Avenue/Exit 10 in Kansas City.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
23 Feb. 2025
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Motorsports have a long history of bringing race technologies to the road.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Colt escapes by initially driving a speedboat while facing away from the controls, evades his pursuers by zigging and zagging through the river, and then purposefully drives his boat into a floating pontoon, faking his own death via the gigantic explosion.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Now, however, DHS states that the previous rules hindered law enforcement efforts by creating sites where people without legal status could evade capture.—
Jackie Fortiér,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Hundreds of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters angrily confronted each other on the streets of a mainly Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday night as officials said Jews were targeted with antisemitic rhetoric.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Police searched a sidewalk and street roughly 20 minutes after the apparent sound of gunshots, but found no shell casings, no evidence of the shooting, and ultimately, no gun.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Shortcut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortcut. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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