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
PC Magazine, 18 Nov. 2025
Quality of life improvements that make the game more manageable in a modern sense can often shortcut elements that were there to increase tension or complexity.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
The plot concerns a med student named Hana (Midori Francis) who finds out that eating human ash is a shortcut to weight loss.
—William Earl, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Apple now plans to open that shortcut to third-party assistants, but only in Japan.
—PC Magazine, 18 Nov. 2025
Quality of life improvements that make the game more manageable in a modern sense can often shortcut elements that were there to increase tension or complexity.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
Just like in every other industry, AI is being hungrily dropped in as a shortcut to spike capital.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
The plot concerns a med student named Hana (Midori Francis) who finds out that eating human ash is a shortcut to weight loss.
—William Earl, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortcut
Verb
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Today’s staged raid reinforces our conviction that this investigation distorts French law, circumvents due process, and endangers free speech.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2026
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Hanging over Leonard’s All-Star selection is the ongoing league investigation related to the Aspiration situation, in which Leonard and the Clippers are accused of circumventing the NBA’s salary-cap rules.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Future lawyer Kim Kardashian and F1 driver Lewis Hamilton are seemingly going on dates with each other or, at the very least, driving dangerously close to the situationship line right before the Valentine’s Day cutoff.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2026
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Some inexplicably even pushed the notch cutoff into 1930s dates of birth!—
Tom Margenau,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
Verb
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And in some cases, the highly talented prospects may bypass one or two of those levels, or at least travel quickly up the ladder.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2026
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In this near-field regime, the light bypasses the diffraction limit and probes nanoscale features.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In logistics, agentic RAG can analyze shipment delays and automatically reschedule routes.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan called a play-action pass from under center with a deep route to occupy the safeties and an in-breaking route through the intermediate area of the field.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In Texas, wind, solar and storage provided about 25% of power for the grid's 27 million customers -- a major increase over 2021 and a key reason blackouts were largely avoided, said John Hensley, a senior vice president at the American Clean Power Association, an industry group.—
MATTHEW DALY,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026
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Healey avoided answering the question, instead stating that Massachusetts officials tipped off the feds to the $7 million SNAP fraud scheme uncovered by Foley’s office in December.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Surrounded by vast desert, the long and windy road that leads to Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills is dotted with prickly cacti and attractive houses.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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This combination of road salt and brine helps to prevent the snow and ice from bonding to the pavement, keeping roads from getting too slick and causing car accidents.—
Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Somehow their petition—miraculously evading Confederate interception and traveling, via the Bahamas, to Washington—arrived on the Navy secretary’s desk, though they likely weren’t released until the end of the war.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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Edwards, who trains such police departments as the New York Police Department on drone threat mitigation, points to fiber-optic drones that can evade radio frequency detection systems as a particular concern.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In a first-of-its-kind event for NASCAR, all three national series will travel to Southern California and race on the streets of Naval Base Coronado, the island facility across the bay from downtown San Diego.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Oval holes in the walls once held lamps to light the street after dark.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Shortcut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortcut. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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