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"And how do you make scarce events that actually fans want to follow?"

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

He likened AAA's crop reduction to chinch bugs, boll weevils and locusts which make scarce "the things for which millions are nightly praying."

From Time Magazine Archive

No matter what advances you might make, scarce a glance or a tail-wag would you get for your pains.

From Stickeen by Muir, John

So concluding, they make scarce a moment’s halt by the ceiba; but, passing under its umbrageous branches, head their horses along the trail leading to the town.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

They serve but to consume, make scarce, and enhance the price of both supplies and money, and to cause uneasiness, fears, and distrust.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander




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