depletion
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Hoffman and other investors note the heightened risk that prices could shoot even higher given the depletion since then of stockpiles around the world, particularly the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Markets are effectively pricing the reopening of the supply pipeline rather than the underlying depletion of inventories.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
That took 20 months of diplomacy but didn’t cost American lives, a depletion of munitions or countless billions of dollars.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
The Social Security trust fund is projected to face depletion sometime between roughly 2033 and 2035, depending on a variety of assumptions.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
A second factor is that, just as the depletion of wild game tended to make hunting-gathering less rewarding, an increased availability of domesticable wild plants made steps leading to plant domestication more rewarding.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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