dearth
Example Sentences
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She now leads the endometriosis service for the Northern Care Alliance and said there was a "dearth of training" and therefore problem "identifying and diagnosing" the disease.
From BBC
Today the nations such as China that embraced population control most wholeheartedly are now worried about a birth dearth.
Finding their conversations therapeutic—and perceiving a dearth of literature on mistakes—they have written “From Mistakes to Meaning.”
Didn’t happen, of course, and today we are more concerned about a birth dearth instead.
From Barron's
Didn’t happen, of course, and today we are more concerned about a birth dearth instead.
From Barron's
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