SHORTCUTS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of shortcut

as in circumvents

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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shortcuts

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noun

plural of shortcut

as in cutoffs

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Recent Examples of shortcuts

Verb

An agency that shortcuts training is an agency prone to lethal errors. — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026

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Additionally, because the $50 co-payment circumvents Part D, the amount doesn’t count toward a beneficiary’s annual deductible or out-of-pocket maximum.

— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
The exhibit mostly circumvents contextualizing the architectural details of the office, and rather aims to explicate the man who worked within it.

— Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026

Definition of circumvents

Noun

Assistance over punishment The most effective approaches to reducing utility cutoffs typically involve working with customers who are struggling to pay their bills, instead of punishing them for their failure to do so.

— Natalie Wallington, MLK50, 18 Aug. 2026
That is why urologists keep pushing back against the same misconceptions, from age cutoffs to assumptions about treatment side effects.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of cutoffs

Verb

Abu Dhabi is expanding a pipeline to Fujairah that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, while some of its tankers are managing to slip through the waterway, helping ADNOC maintain and sometimes even exceed prewar flows.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Hackers can alter the prescribed sequence of message exchanges in a way that bypasses authentication requirements.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of bypasses

Noun

Consider, for instance, a crossroads of two busy streets, with a few alleys and parking lots adding to the list of potential dangers.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026
There, sprinklers sprayed water across the track ensuring that our route, a coned course with tight, tricky curves and acceleration alleys, would challenge me at every turn.

— Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of alleys

Verb

And the lichen also avoids non-bearing rocks like granite, sandstone, and quartzite, where its occurrence dropped to less than one percent.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
For the record, my hunch is Notre Dame avoids the flat-tire game that’s dogged Freeman.

— Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of avoids

Noun

From classic Amtrak routes crossing the Continental Divide to historic steam locomotives chugging through the state’s mining past, these journeys continue to preserve the stories, scenery and communities that helped shape the West.

— Jocelyn Rowley, Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2026
In a bid to control traffic through the narrow waterway, Iran has designated routes going through their territorial waters.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of routes

Verb

If a cyclist ignores a moving violation summons and gets stopped again while cycling, there’s nothing the NYPD can do other than issue more moving violation summonses that will be ignored and go unpaid.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
But that’s a much smaller part of the story than the argument suggests, and ignores that the majority of the competitive stakes in major European divisions are driven by the quest for continental competition.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of ignores

Noun

The wars in the Gulf and Ukraine have essentially shut off some of the world’s key passageways for global commodities, while extended droughts have restricted travel through the key arteries such as the Panama Canal.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 17 Aug. 2026
While PennDOT already has created over 30 wildlife crossings, the establishment of the new cohesive group of state agency stakeholders is likely to accelerate building the safe animal passageways and reverse the high collision rate with motorists.

— Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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