Thesaurus results for SHORTING

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

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Marris was aghast, squeezing the sides of her phone to capture what was on the screen.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
The level of boredom Pugh brought to Kate making her older client orgasm by squeezing his nipples really sold her approach to the work.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

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The company remains one of the world’s largest automakers and carries the legacy of Dieselgate, the emissions-cheating scandal that cost it billions of dollars in fines, settlements and other penalties.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
At the same time, as families pour more resources into preparing young people for the exams, frequent cheating scandals and test cancellations can make their investment moot.

— Aakash Hassan, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2026

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LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
Fortunately, many dahlia insect problems in September can be solved by walking through the garden in the morning and plucking the offending insects off the plants by hand, then dropping them into a container of soapy water.

— Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2026

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By sticking her neck out and opening up a very touchy subject for examination, Hannah-Jones has done much more to advance the cause of public education than most of her detractors will give her credit for.

— Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
In fact, one of Lamper’s most viral videos shows Finn sticking his arm inside an automatic feeder to get extra food.

— Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of sticking

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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

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The screwworm gets its name from the maggots’ habit of burrowing — or screwing — into a wound, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

— Fabiola Sánchez, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of screwing

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As of today, with that $7 million ticking fee to WBD shareholders kicking in October 1 and Ellison’s leaked threat to pull up HQ stakes outta the Golden State still stinging, the deal still sits in legal limbo.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
And in the Northwest, unseasonably warm temperatures combined with drier fall conditions may extend ant and stinging insect activity.

— Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 25 Sep. 2026

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