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While much has been made about the dearth of millennial homeowners, approximately 55.4 percent of millennials now own their homes, according to Redfin data from 2025.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Still, concern about the increased dearth of Black artists and Black art is legitimate.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

After the 2008 financial crisis, a dearth of new home construction made affordability a significant challenge for many people trying to break into homeownership.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Sunrise also hopes to benefit from a dearth of new senior housing supply, which was limited until recently by the difficult pandemic years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Maybe not a miraculous, but certainly a rather curious, story lay behind Onofre’s dearth of an appendage.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Old timber towns with shuttered mills, flood-soaked cities and rural areas left off high-speed broadband networks suffered dearths of economic opportunity, even as Puget Sound’s largest cities flourished with explosive tech growth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

No doubt, in this case, and in all others, many checks concur, and different checks under different circumstances; periodical dearths, depending on unfavourable seasons, being probably the most important of all.

From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The frequency of local dearths, and the diversity and fluctuation of prices, were thus extreme.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

There appeared one of those dearths not unusual in Hindostan; the population of the famished province cried out for rice; the stores of which, diminished by nature, had for months mysteriously disappeared.

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield