Synonyms for shortcut
ˈʃɔrtˌkʌtshort·cut

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1. shortcut, cutoff, crosscutnoun

   a route shorter than the usual one

   Synonyms:
   cutoff, crosscut

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1. • Road

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1. List of paraphrases for "shortcut":

   contextual, shortcuts, context-sensitive, right-click, context, shortcutting

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1. Tynisa Gaines:

   It's not easy. I have to look it up for almost every client every year, a state might decide not to tax veteran retirement pay when they did before, or they might exempt military spouse pay suddenly. There is no shortcut to it at all.

2. Lieutenant Ken Nelson:

   We were surprised that they were able to get their sedan to where they'd driven, they were trying to take a shortcut to Palm Springs and got on a dirt road that eventually turned into a trail and then just ended.

3. David Strickland:

   What people are looking for is clear rules of the road of what needs to be done for (fully autonomous) vehicles to be on the road, nobody wants to take a shortcut on this.

4. Piu Eatwell:

   I’m 99 percent confident on the basis of the evidence I see, there was definitely a cover-up. Even as I was going through the documents, pages were just missing and removed. And they’re almost always connected somehow to Leslie Dillon or Mark Hansen. There are very serious questions about Leslie Dillon that can’t be answered… Her shoes and purse were found dumped in the trash can shortly after the murder by a local cafe owner. And that’s actually two blocks from where Leslie Dillon lived… The park where she was found is one he knew very well and in fact, used as a shortcut to get to where he lived.

5. Steven Hoffman:

   In marketing literature, they talk about a halo effect around celebrities, whereby people have a very positive view of celebrities, and when celebrities endorse a product or recommend a particular health practice, it transfers their golden glow from the celebrity to the products or practice, in economics literature, there's recognition of something called signaling, which is whereby in a marketplace filled with competing ideas, people are constantly looking for a shortcut in order to identify which products or practices they should be following, and so a celebrity endorsing a product provides a cognitive shortcut to an otherwise very complicated decision.