Thesaurus results for SHORTED

shorted

verb

Definition of shorted next

past tense of short

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years

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Recent Examples of shorted Still, the trades raised some eyebrows because whoever purchased a large amount of stock futures and sold or shorted crude futures at that moment made a lot of money just minutes later. —

Yun Li, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026 Online and in congressional hearings, Tenev was accused of aiding hedge funds that had shorted GameStop, at amateur traders’ expense. —

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026 Crowley alleged that her department had been shorted money needed to improve fire responses. —

Dan Walters, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026 Those who shorted the provocation phase got crushed by the pivot. —

Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026 The initial claim from Nebraska was scant on details about how much water is being shorted to Nebraska users. —

The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025 Electric telegraph lines across Europe and the Americas shorted out. —

Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025 Due to its sharp increase of votes for Tarrant County College, all the other taxing entities were shorted the number of votes they are entitled to, Barnes said. —

Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025 The water shorted his air conditioning unit. —

Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2025

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Teddy, specifically, has also cheated death on the series several times.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Indigenous people have been cheated through laws such as are operated in Nigeria today.

— Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026