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IN SHORT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a concise manner; in a few words
Example:
to put it shortly
Synonyms:
briefly; concisely; in brief; in short; shortly
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Context examples:
In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In short, we should manipulate this kind of tickets as little as possible.
(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)
In short, it appears that dark energy may not actually exist since the acceleration of the expansion is contained in the equations of the physics.
(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Then the queen her mother, packed up a great many costly things; jewels, and gold, and silver; trinkets, fine dresses, and in short everything that became a royal bride.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In short, Brissenden struck Martin as anaemic and feather-brained, and was promptly dismissed from his mind.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An arbitrary unit for the measurement of Amb a 1 (or Antigen E), a 38 kD glycoprotein that is the major allergen in short ragweed pollen allergen extracts.
(Amb a 1 Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
It had not escaped him that his opponent was breathing in short, hoarse gasps, like a man who is dizzy with fatigue.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All measurable lymph nodes also have a reduction in short axis diameter to 10 mm.
(Modified Overall Immune Related Response Criterion, Complete Remission, NCI Thesaurus)
An angiocentric vascular tumor composed of epithelioid endothelial cells arranged in short cords and nests in a distinctive myxohyaline stroma.
(Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)
In short, Mr. Holmes, you would go far before you found a more dangerous man than Peter Carey, and I have heard that he bore the same character when he commanded his ship.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
