Thesaurus results for SHORTED

shorted

verb

past tense of short

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years

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Recent Examples of shorted Telegraph lines – still very new at the time – shorted out, and that night, bright auroras lit up the sky. — Mary Magnuson, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026 That meant that many investors who had shorted bitcoin, or bet that its price would remain subdued, were forced to close their positions as bitcoin surged. — Michelle Chapman, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 The increase was driven entirely by new short selling — about $98 billion of additional shares shorted, said Sam Pierson, S3’s director of research. — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2026 According to estimates from financial software company S3 Partners, around 206 million shares are being shorted, just under a third of all publicly tradable shares. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 22 July 2026 Citadel ended up making a grave-dancer investment in Melvin Capital, a hedge fund that had shorted GameStop, to capitalize on Melvin’s distress. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 The first, in which a dangling panel from an Acela train shorted third-rail power into the signaling system, shut down rail travel into and out of Penn for more than a day. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026 Still, the trades raised some eyebrows because whoever purchased a large amount of stock futures and sold or shorted crude futures at that moment made a lot of money just minutes later. — Yun Li, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026 Online and in congressional hearings, Tenev was accused of aiding hedge funds that had shorted GameStop, at amateur traders’ expense. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026

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The simple truth is that no single technology can fully address AI misuse or determine whether a student cheated.

— Melissa Loble, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Scarlett Johansson sued you over that, alleging that Disney cheated her out of box office upside.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of cheated

Verb

Four years later Fontaine plucked another future Hall of Famer, taking outfielder Tony Gwynn in the third round.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
His last one was in the fourth quarter by Curry, who read the short pass and plucked it out of the air for the score.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of plucked

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Pick it up, however, and there's no mistaking how much battery Bluetti has squeezed inside.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Give members of the business and culture press the excuse to write about the rough economics of linear TV and how late night is particularly squeezed.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of squeezed

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Quickly, the house lights come up, and Lay and family are hustled backstage to get reacquainted.

— Joan Kron, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
Her mother hustled her to hospital, only for the doctors to realize Accurso’s active imagination had left her in the same predicament as Madeline’s friends.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of hustled

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Frazier was a Black sharecropper’s son who’d overcome much hardship, and the insults stung.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
As solitary insects with limited aggression towards humans, the risk of getting stung is often not worth your direct interference.

— Sean Donnelly, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of stung

Verb

Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Sometimes a lid isn’t screwed tightly, and your foundation proves its worth all over the inside of your bag.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of screwed

Verb

Kyiv's retaliatory attacks mean Russian exports are now also stuck, further squeezing global supply.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026
In a cozy suburb of Minneapolis, a guy in a blue jumpsuit is once again stuck aboard a space station with his robot pals, watching the worst movies ever made.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of stuck

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