Synonyms for cut corners
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1. cut cornersverb

   Synonyms:
   skimp, short cut

2. cut cornersverb

   To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.

   Synonyms:
   short cut, skimp

3. cut cornersverb

   To do a less than thorough or complete job; to do something poorly or take short cuts.

   The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.

   Synonyms:
   short cut, skimp

Princeton's WordNet

1. cut cornersverb

   do something the cheapest or easiest way

   "Cut corners to make a cheaper product"

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1. Brenda Mallory.Jan Hasselman:

   If they cut corners on the environmental analysis, this guidance would give us a yardstick to hold up to what the agencies did and argued they have n’t gone far enough.

2. Ayelet Fishbach:

   We celebrate graduations at work and cheer when we finish big projects. But there is no celebration for middles. That's when we both cut corners and we lose our motivation, we will still slack in that middle, and having long projects invites a long middle.

3. Stephen Hahn:

   We will not cut corners in our decision making.

4. Thomas Steinemann:

   This is not the time to cut corners, always wash your hands, always use hand sanitizer. Don't touch your face. Don't rub your eye. Right ? And disinfect your contact lenses.

5. Ashish Pujari:

   China's growth in the chemicals industry has been extremely rapid in the last 15 years or so. It's grown from being a major importer to being a major producer of almost every single petrochemical you can think of today, there are producers who are known to cut corners, in terms of regulation. There are very blatant examples of people constructing plants and almost getting into production even before the whole project has been approved.