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What has changed is the economics: A doctor’s time is scarce and expensive, and an AI’s is nearly free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Now, however, climate change has turned water into a scarce resource, requiring a shift in thinking, Schneider argued.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

“These financing platforms will help customers access scarce compute at scale and build the DSX AI factories that will power every industry and country in the age of AI,” Huang said in a separate statement.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Jackson said Tehran’s response tool kit includes rationing fuel and electricity, restricting access to scarce hard currency, and printing money to fund wages, reconstruction and other government spending despite diminished revenues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Though there was little snow, the cold came early and stayed late, and fuel was scarce.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The right response is more production and more productivity growth, not scarcer credit.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

By the time the next crew swapped with his that afternoon, they were scarcer: “One every 30 minutes, roughly,” Ulibarri recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

If major food-producing regions were hit, some foods would become scarcer, driving up prices globally and potentially restricting choice, the report says.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Conversely, they make Waste Management’s assets scarcer and more valuable.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

Times hadn't been great, but now food and money were scarcer than before.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

But periodically investors get a reminder that one of the scarcest AI resources is top talent.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026

Hatakeyama compares this to an updated version of Liebig's famous barrel analogy, in which a plant's growth is limited by its shortest stave, representing the scarcest resource.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

The scarcest resource in the AI arms race is access to computing, which is why OpenAI and others are pledging to spend trillions of dollars in the coming years to make sure the capacity expands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

It can also have the most significant impact on water levels, as it happens at the time of year when water is scarcest.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2022

In Osborne's Catalogue for 1751, the Toledo Missal, described as the scarcest volume in the world, was valued only at £35.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt