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How to use the word shortcut in a Sentence?

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It’s pretty wild, ain’t it? You have another bowhunter looking for a shortcut who stumbled upon a bowhunter from 53 years ago.

Sheriff Steve Penner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The hunter was seeking a shortcut from one hunting area to another when he found human remains and then contacted the sheriff’s office, due to the lack of remaining daylight and ruggedness of the terrain, recovery efforts began on the morning of the 18.

Sheriff Steve Penner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Arctic is a terrific shortcut, whether you're in an aircraft, whether you're underneath the surface of the ocean and also for intercontinental ballistic missile, this goes back to the Cold War.

Vice Admiral Robert Murrett

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My view of the evidence is that Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith likely believed that what John Durham said about Dr. Page was true, john Durham was saving John Durham some work taking an inappropriate shortcut.

James Boasberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Try to take a shortcut, but I get cut again and again

Selena Gomez

added by rianrr
4 years ago

Social status is a useful shortcut for women to judge the value of a man.

Roosh Valizadeh

added by Mattd6422
5 years ago

It's not easy. I have to look it up for almost every client every year, a state might decide not to tax veteran retirement pay when they did before, or they might exempt military spouse pay suddenly. There is no shortcut to it at all.

Tynisa Gaines

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Tshisekedi took a dangerous shortcut to power at the expense of the Congolese people that Felix Tshisekedi pretended to defend, kabila couldn't manipulate the polls for his preferred candidate, so he went with Tshisekedi as a Plan B because( he was) seen as manipulable. ( There's) no long-term peace and stability with faulty institutions.

Martin Fayulu

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Access to human beings is hard to replicate, human beings can shortcut,' What's their plan going into the next election. What do they talk about ?'.

Philip Mudd

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I’m 99 percent confident on the basis of the evidence I see, there was definitely a cover-up. Even as I was going through the documents, pages were just missing and removed. And they’re almost always connected somehow to Leslie Dillon or Mark Hansen. There are very serious questions about Leslie Dillon that can’t be answered… Her shoes and purse were found dumped in the trash can shortly after the murder by a local cafe owner. And that’s actually two blocks from where Leslie Dillon lived… The park where she was found is one he knew very well and in fact, used as a shortcut to get to where he lived.

Piu Eatwell

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In marketing literature, they talk about a halo effect around celebrities, whereby people have a very positive view of celebrities, and when celebrities endorse a product or recommend a particular health practice, it transfers their golden glow from the celebrity to the products or practice, in economics literature, there's recognition of something called signaling, which is whereby in a marketplace filled with competing ideas, people are constantly looking for a shortcut in order to identify which products or practices they should be following, and so a celebrity endorsing a product provides a cognitive shortcut to an otherwise very complicated decision.

Steven Hoffman

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In economics literature, there's recognition of something called signaling, which is whereby in a marketplace filled with competing ideas, people are constantly looking for a shortcut in order to identify which products or practices they should be following, and so a celebrity endorsing a product provides a cognitive shortcut to an otherwise very complicated decision.

Steven Hoffman

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I’m feeling God’s embrace [hiking the mountain]— this is better than church, my shortcut is the holy spirit.

Sam Kim

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

What people are looking for is clear rules of the road of what needs to be done for (fully autonomous) vehicles to be on the road, nobody wants to take a shortcut on this.

David Strickland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We were surprised that they were able to get their sedan to where they'd driven, they were trying to take a shortcut to Palm Springs and got on a dirt road that eventually turned into a trail and then just ended.

Lieutenant Ken Nelson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Saying this is a sub rosa plan doesn't make it one, this is not actually an attempt by anyone to take a shortcut.

Shelley Chapman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

H. P. Lovecraft

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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