as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
was shortchanged out of a promotion
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Recent Examples of shortchange
The governor came to Palm Beach State College just west of Lake Worth Beach on Wednesday to discuss the issue, including his claim that Florida was shortchanged after the 2000 Census and should have gotten one more congressional district.
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Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
No matter your preference, you won’t be shortchanged by a Labor Day visit to the northeast.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
While banks prey on the false scarcity by demanding an even higher premium on loans, research shows that for Cook County is being shortchanged in terms of state funding.
—Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Still, some up-and-coming teams got shortchanged.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
No matter your preference, you won’t be shortchanged by a Labor Day visit to the northeast.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
While banks prey on the false scarcity by demanding an even higher premium on loans, research shows that for Cook County is being shortchanged in terms of state funding.
—Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Still, some up-and-coming teams got shortchanged.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortchange
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Guys were continually getting above pucks and taking hard strides back, not cheating for offense.—
Brad Elliott Schlossman,
Twin Cities,
18 Oct. 2025
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Regarding the subject of cheating and whether students might use AI to write essays, edX told Fortune that GradyAI has cheating detection built into its algorithms that can be turned on or off depending on the application.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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In a sector already squeezed by rising land prices, material costs, and labor shortages, those weeks of manual quantification represent millions of dollars in overhead that never swing a hammer.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Made mostly of muscle without a bone in their bodies, these wonderful weirdos can squeeze into spaces scarcely bigger than their eyeballs.—
Kate Siber,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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Wentz was once plucked from a cocoon in North Dakota and thrown into the Philadelphia fire.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Helicopters have been plucking people off rooftops for rescue from flooding and structural damage.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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While everyone else hustles about, the sloth knows that in slowness there is safety and success.—
Kate Siber,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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The pair must hustle their way out of trouble involving a temperamental drug boss and a whimsical cop investigating a celebrity murder.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Joey Ortiz stung a groundball to Muncy’s left.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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But for Hovland, the lingering frustration of missing Sunday singles and watching Harris English sit out for no fault of his own still stings.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Dale Ellis covers the federal courthouse beat for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, reporting on criminal and civil matters that impact Arkansans.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2025
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Michele Di Gregorio made a stunning double save and was only beaten when a Vinicius Junior shot came back off the post and Jude Bellingham reacted quicker to it than Lloyd Kelly.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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One issue is that hypnosis has long been viewed as a form of entertainment, a stage show with a hypnotist and an audience, which can give viewers a sense that hypnosis is something done to you rather than a process that a person is led through.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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There are a lot of very respectable academics that have done a lot of really amazing work in Black Studies and Africana Studies.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Broncos got screwed on an interference call that placed the ball on the 1-yard line.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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Gabriel has royally screwed the pooch.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Shortchange.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortchange. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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