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Japan and South Korea are using more coal to replace scarce and expensive oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Doricko says, "Jordan residents often only have water for hours per week from their utility because of how scarce water is, and it's a privilege to try to help this storied region."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the weeks following the June primary election, Becerra made himself scarce on the campaign trail and attended few public events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Decorated pots were also produced using higher quality clay, suggesting that the migrant potters were allowed access to scarce, superior materials for their work.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Most of it is a fragile land base where the elevation is high, rainfall is scarce, and drought is a part of life.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

There is also mounting evidence from the geological record that when eukaryotes were first evolving, oxygen was likely much scarcer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

That has made diesel scarcer — and more expensive — globally.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Jack Zhu, a private-equity investor in Beijing, was looking for a second act after investment opportunities became scarcer in China’s slowing economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Drastic restrictions on cross-country travel took effect Thursday in cash-strapped Cuba, with spaces on ever scarcer trains and buses now reserved for the sick, people traveling for funerals and other emergencies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

By late March and early April, game was growing scarcer as the animals migrated north, fleeing the onset of Antarctic winter.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

As she climbs the corporate ladder of a Texas-based oil company, Bunny slowly realizes that energy isn’t just a matter of machines, but also the toughest and scarcest commodity for all modern women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

I could have a hundred lovers—but, ach, friends are the scarcest things in the world.

From Truxton King A Story of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon