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shortchanging

verb

present participle of shortchange
as in cheating
to rob by the use of trickery or threats was shortchanged out of a promotion

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Recent Examples of shortchanging Ohio lawmakers approved an $875 million payment package Wednesday after the Ohio Supreme Court found the state used the wrong formula to calculate certain Medicaid reimbursements for nursing homes, shortchanging providers by hundreds of millions of dollars. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026 Despite all of this, the market is still trying to figure out what Millrose is worth, and at around 9 times AFFO, Wall Street still might be shortchanging the REIT. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026 The Hall of Fame, in fact, did nothing to combat its history of shortchanging female performers. — Dan Kelly april 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026 Something that reflects how Dan Fogelman’s show is no longer behaving like a straightforward postapocalypse story and how this season’s narrative slips and slides through the timeline, increasingly shortchanging the series creator’s innate preference for sincerity. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026 Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office has fined two swanky Beacon Hill restaurants more than $420,000 for shortchanging waiters of a 3% service fee the Boston establishments were charging customers. — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026 The county had long been credited by some for its fiscal acumen, while at the same time criticized by others for shortchanging residents on important services. — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026 Some rounded prices down to avoid shortchanging shoppers. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025 Greenblatt’s myth of a Romantic Marlowe almost singlehandedly pushing England into the Renaissance betrays the principles of New Historicism by shortchanging the roles of so many other key players. — Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortchanging
  1. cheating
  2. squeezing
  3. hustling
  4. plucking
  5. screwing
  6. sticking
  7. stinging
  8. beating
Verb
  • Now there seems to be a petty attempt to call out cheating when no cheating took place.
    — Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Around this time, Kingsolver was accused of cheating in a regional essay contest.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of cheating
Verb
  • Moreover, the short extension of the trade armistice only underscores its fragility; Beijing is still squeezing flows of rare earths to extract concessions from the US and coerce its allies, including Japan.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2026
  • That high pressure and the burgeoning nor’easter are squeezing the air between them, increasing wind speeds along the East Coast.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of squeezing
Verb
  • Besides Instagram hustling and scouring job boards, entrepreneurial editors find gigs when creators call out for help.
    — Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Devers, who finished with three hits, eschewed his power for small ball in the fifth, laying down a surprise bunt for a single, then hustling home on Susac’s sacrifice fly.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
Definition of hustling
Verb
  • LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Fortunately, many dahlia insect problems in September can be solved by walking through the garden in the morning and plucking the offending insects off the plants by hand, then dropping them into a container of soapy water.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of plucking
Verb
  • The screwworm gets its name from the maggots’ habit of burrowing — or screwing — into a wound, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
    — Fabiola Sánchez, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • There’s a storyline in season two about AI being employed at the hospital, then screwing everything up when the system goes down.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of screwing
Verb
  • Most leaders are sticking the initial demands contained in the African Union’s position on the issue adopted in 2005, which includes a demand for at least two permanent seats on the Security Council.
    — Mogomotsi Magome, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Most leaders are sticking the initial demands contained in the African Union's position on the issue adopted in 2005, which includes a demand for at least two permanent seats on the Security Council.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of sticking
Verb
  • Some baby hummingbirds disguise themselves as caterpillars with stinging hairs to avoid predators, while octopus, squid, and cuttlefish use camouflage to blend in with their surroundings and hide.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
  • How to prevent wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets Proactive maintenance can keep stinging insects from setting up home on your property.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of stinging
Verb
  • Nigeria is on track to complete a 90,000 km fiber optic cable network in three years, a government minister said, beating an initial timeline for the project backed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • OpenAI earlier this month released GPT-6 Astra, which has sometimes been modestly beating Opus 5 in benchmarks and user sentiment.
    — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of beating

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“Shortchanging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortchanging. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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