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• r  for a short time
  he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive
• r  in the near future
  the book will appear shortly
• r  in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
  he said shortly that he didn't like it
• r  in a concise manner; in a few words
  to put it shortly
• r  at a short distance
  the hem fell shortly below her knees

• Following Jewish tradition, Obama donned a yarmulke and went to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, where shortly before dawn on Thursday he stuffed his prayer into a crevice .
• Then the Berlin Wall fell, and shortly afterward, Merkel joined the Christian Democratic Union of East Germany.
• Radiohead's contract with EMICapitol expired after its last record, Hail to the Thief, was released in 2003; shortly before the band started writing new songs, singer Thom Yorke .

• soon
• presently
• before long
• curtly
• short
• concisely
• briefly
• in brief
• in short

News & Articles

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• Train drain: Stop running yourself into the ground, and get more by doing less
  CHICAGO -- Shortly after Matt Ancona started running to lose weight, his competitive nature kicked in. He ran a marathon, then a triathlon, and within three years he had completed an Ironman triathlon. Hoping to get faster, he sometimes trained for 20 to 25 hours a week, pushing himself to outdo his pace or mileage.
  June 17, 2013 - Erie Times-News
• Insomniac Explains Sunset Overdrive's Xbox One Exclusivity
  Shortly after the announcement of Sunset Overdrive during Microsoft's E3 press conference, Insomniac's CEO Ted Price posted a message on the company's website offering a few more details about the game, and why it's exclusive to Xbox One. The trailer showcased a parkour runner taking on mutants in what appeared to be an abandoned city. The game's official description reads, "With an arsenal of ...
  June 16, 2013 - Game Informer
• Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste
  The Bloomberg administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year, or about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.
  June 16, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  Speaking in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said, "I will sign this legislation into law shortly, and we'll begin making the immediate investments necessary to put people back to work doing the work America needs done."
• Vice President Dick Cheney in ABC News
  I heard a loud boom, and shortly after that the Secret Service came in and told me there had been an attack on the main gate, apparently a suicide bomber,Cheney said to a small group of reporters traveling with him.