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While the national team has a wealth of attacking players, many of whom are performing at high levels in Europe, there is a dearth of strikers.

President Barack Obama’s Administration inherited this unfortunate state of affairs, but the public bristled at the dearth of criminal convictions for high-level corporate executives in the wake of that financial crisis.

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So steady has Beekman been this season that he has started seven games despite a dearth of experience at the college level.

As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, helping pregnant people navigate this dearth of research was part of Parchem’s job even before the pandemic.

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I have friends who complain daily about the dearth of available dating options.

The Pentagon security reviewers must have been suffering a dearth of caffeine or sleep.

The FDA is hoping to remedy the dearth of knowledge with a plea aimed at influential drugmakers.

And the dearth of top Democratic visitors could have a real impact on down-ballot Democrats.

Like the people of Westeros, winter is coming and with it a dearth of Game of Thrones.

Despite the dearth of decent sex education, most of us could figure out what had happened.

She had been confined to the house a month, and there had been, as a natural consequence, a great dearth of news.

The mills, with their dyes and dirt, are also responsible for the dearth of trout.

Great wealth cannot still hunger, but rather occasions more dearth, for where rich people are there things are always dear.

I have the honor to enclose the last gazettes, by which Congress will see the dearth of news in Europe at present.

A dearth of all sedentary resources became, when his youth passed away, his own constant reproach.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dearth, such as: absence, deficiency, inadequacy, lack, paucity, and shortage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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