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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
short .
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Examples
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A month later, the lone wirehead killed himself after the rain shorted the last of the robots.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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A month later, the lone wirehead killed himself after the rain shorted the last of the robots.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Almost 30% of the company's float is being shorted, which is up from last year.
unknown title 2011
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Neuwirth calls this network of small enterprises System D taken and shorted from a French term.
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Stories appeared shortly after the speech that the share values of the companies that Eisman had criticized dropped immediately and considerably -- and that Eisman had "shorted" these stocks, and thus profited handsomely.
Lanny Davis: Transparency by 'Shorts' on 'For-Profit' Schools Needed, Too 2010
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Contracts also could be sold, or "shorted," if the investor expects the movie to falter at the box office.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission approves second movie futures exchange 2010
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Stories appeared shortly after the speech that the share values of the companies that Eisman had criticized dropped immediately and considerably -- and that Eisman had "shorted" these stocks, and thus profited handsomely.
Lanny Davis: Transparency by 'Shorts' on 'For-Profit' Schools Needed, Too 2010
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Digging In deeper: He also "shorted" futures on Japanese interest rates and government bonds, selling contracts Barings did not own.
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Yesterday morning, he and colleagues had bought back many of the shares that they had "shorted," or borrowed and sold in anticipation that they could profit from their price declines.
No Place to Hide: 2008
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These questions include why the Secret Service didn't immediately grab Bush at that Florida school and get him on a plane, why NORAD fighter-jets were MIA on that fateful morning, why airline stocks were "shorted" just prior to the attacks.
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