shorting

verb

present participle of short
as in squeezing
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 shorting While great news for Doximity, the huge upswing the in the stock on Friday morning is bad for anybody who is shorting it. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026 Acting on such vague forecasts, like shorting Bitcoin, carries immense risk due to its volatility. — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 In the nineties, George Soros became famous for shorting the British pound. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 On second thought, shorting security stocks might be a bad idea. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026 Stanton demonstrates his battery by shorting the coils, which halts the pendulum due to the magnetic field’s braking effect. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026 Use clam shell-type products to keep water from getting into the connection point and shorting out the lights. — Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025 In the past, active investment managers could negate overvalued stocks by selling or shorting them. — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 7 Nov. 2025 Social media users also raised concerns about anonymous accounts holding crypto wallets that may have benefited from shorting the crypto market — and whether insider trading could have been involved. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shorting
  1. squeezing
  2. cheating
  3. plucking
  4. sticking
  5. hustling
  6. screwing
  7. stinging
  8. beating
Verb
  • Squeeze your glutes, engage your core and drive your heels into the floor to raise your hips up to the ceiling while gently squeezing the ball.
    — Andee Tagle, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Google hasn't explained the cut, but the timing lines up with the same memory and AI infrastructure costs squeezing pricing across the entire industry this year.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of squeezing
Verb
  • The Model 3 and Model Y adopted less elaborate press-and-pivot handles, helping give the cars their clean, wind-cheating profiles.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The British-Argentine actor’s point has less to do with her conflicted con artist cheating death numerous times and besting her mobster in-laws, as well as the FBI.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of cheating
Verb
  • The streamer has found its leading lady for the biopic, plucking an unknown first-timer to play the sertanejo icon.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Dramatic photos taken from the scene show a firefighter on a tower ladder plucking a panicked child from a fire escape.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of plucking
Verb
  • Small enough to be more cute than dangerous—but not worth sticking a finger in the water to test the theory.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Florida Attorney General James Ulthmeier once again is grandstanding and sticking his nose into a national issue.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of sticking
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
  • 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
  • The breeze was screwing with the sound system, and the temperature dropped abruptly.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
Definition of screwing
Verb
  • Battered fish and salt-and-vinegar-seasoned chips have been a staple for hundreds of years, best paired with stinging seaside winds and spray.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Beneath Lamb’s unkempt appearance, crude manners, noxious flatulence, and stinging remarks lies one of the sharpest minds in MI5 and a man fiercely protective of his brood of misfits.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of stinging
Verb
  • Earlier polling showed Donalds beating Jolly by 5 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average of two polls that surveyed voters on a hypothetical matchup between the two front-runners.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2026
  • At the 2025 French Open, Loïs Boisson rode her wild card all the way to the semifinals, beating two top-10 players along the way.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of beating

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“Shorting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shorting. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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