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It's a bit like saying you never called someone short, just that they lacked height.
I refused politely, explaining my need to sit behind someone short.
I arrive early and find a seat behind someone short, since I myself am small.
"Especially when you stop someone short on third or fourth down and you look up and the crowd's going nuts and you're like: 'I did that.
Throughout the decade during which Monet wrenched it up from his bowels, the "painter of happiness" behaved like someone short of serotonin.
Most people who conquer the Times crossword every day would've told you that the February 8th puzzle was a little on the easy side for a Wednesday — which is a bit like calling someone short for a point guard, or slight for a jockey — but added that this was more than offset by the evident degree of amusement its "constructor," Lynn Lempel, had taken with the clues and architecture.
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The sinister score by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor embodies the mood: industrial rumbles, distant alarms and a faint buzzing that suggests the sound of something, or someone, short-circuiting.
Being tall, I'm not naturally that quick on my feet – not in the way, say, someone shorter like James Taylor is – but I do have to stay on top of it.
Someone shorted Ethereum just before the attack, cleaning up the equivalent of about US$1mm.
"In this case, it's [Taturs Mayberry], but he'll be on someone shorter.
If you haven't dated someone shorter than you, from out of state, or with a few years age difference, doesn't mean they don't have potential!
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