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
Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Press a shortcut, type a few letters, and instantly open apps, files, or even do basic calculations without digging through menus.
—Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The remote has shortcut buttons for both Amazon Prime and Netflix and both shows and movies came out crisp and clear.
—Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
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Verb
There was still significant pushback to the drugs amongst survey respondents, with 73 percent of Americans saying GLP-1s are a shortcut to weight loss.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Press a shortcut, type a few letters, and instantly open apps, files, or even do basic calculations without digging through menus.
—Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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
The remote has shortcut buttons for both Amazon Prime and Netflix and both shows and movies came out crisp and clear.
—Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortcut
Verb
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The Clippers have publicly suggested that there is evidence the team did not circumvent salary rules.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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Taylor and Travis fall somewhere between the two, with their previous owner evidently looking to circumvent the shelter's current system for taking in pets.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Two of those billionaires are not American and another three were too poor to make this year’s Forbes 400 cutoff.—
Thomas Gallagher,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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What is the Powerball cutoff time to buy tickets?—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Mobile check-in allows guests to bypass the lobby and go straight to their rooms using the hotel’s app, if desired.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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If platforms don’t support how work actually gets done—like handoffs, lead qualification or follow-up timing—users will bypass them.—
Al Sefati,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In addition to optimizing queries, Espresso routes queries between different compute clusters to maximize efficiency.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The location of the firearm appears to match the suspect's route of travel, the sources said.—
Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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However, by sharing so much of Lisa's code, the interface practically demanded a pointing device, and the mouse was selected, even though Raskin had so carefully tried to avoid it.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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These writers will work under the latest Public Television Freelance Agreement, which the WGA East ratified in December after a lengthy and sometimes contentious negotiation cycle with PBS, narrowly avoiding a strike.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Pledges to give it all away A good friend of philanthropist Michael Milken who has raised billions of dollars for cancer research, Ellison believes the road to bliss is altruistic giving.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Studies have also shown that the extra hour of daylight has resulted in safer roads, lower crime rates and economic benefits.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The discovery adds a new dimension to understanding cancer and therapy resistance, where cells often evade treatment by shifting states.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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But Moscow has found ways to evade these.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Tesla had been at the impound lot for two days after being found abandoned on a Hollywood street, investigators said.—
Alex Stone,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Fairgoers can take advantage of Valley Regional Transit, which will shuttle people from any VRT stop to 13th and Ridenbaugh streets (about two blocks from the fair) — and back afterward.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Shortcut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortcut. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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