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The bodega and ration book system was implemented by late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in 1963, after the United States placed the island under embargo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Where I lose patience, though, is when a director assumes the audience doesn’t have a collective brain cell among them and attempts to get away with serving action fans a ration of gruel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

I feel like I have to ration my questions because there are only so many times she will respond to me.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

With many years of military experience, I know what happens when you ration a scarce, aging fleet against rising demand: readiness erodes, and someone downstream absorbs the risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

In the morning, they’d bury their C ration cans and other garbage, and head out for another day of working their way through the jungle.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

If AI doesn’t pan out or become profitable, or if people don’t start paying for it, we’ll have a lot of chips with which to measure our food rations.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

His wife took the chance to leave double food rations for their canary, Pavarotti.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

After being a Tab obsessive for years before its discontinuation, Ward now carefully rations Coke Zero to avoid drinking three a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Motorists are also now required to register for a National Fuel Pass which rations the amount of fuel that people can buy.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

The parasites have already scavenged even the last emergency rations meant for the passengers when we arrived on Sagan.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

After the second world war, sugar remained rationed in Britain for several years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The fact that marginal cost pricing would lead to reselling, creating windfall profits for anyone lucky enough to get a rationed ticket, does not alter the principle.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Bangladesh has rationed fuel and deployed the military to ward off unrest.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

The lack of electricity, except in rationed spurts, meant searing heat during the day followed by freezing cold during the night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

“They rationed it by day. Nothing at night.”

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

"I've been rationing it and using less than what's suggested," she admits.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In the 1949 classic, a small group of Londoners discover treasure and declare independence making them exempt from post-war rationing and other bureaucratic restrictions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

So the rationing helps for them self-govern a little bit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

This would include waiving of taxes on animal feed inputs, as well as "active retail price monitoring to deter opportunity price gouging and rationing".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

But almond trees use more water than almost everything—and with rationing set so low, the almond farms failed first.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman