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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

Growth for the company’s Azure cloud-computing service has been hurt by Microsoft’s need to also ration out computing access to its other AI services and internal-development efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Several Catholic priests told the news agency they had been asked to ration the wafers, which are offered to the faithful as part of Mass.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

I pet Kingston, and give him a ration of water that I know is not enough but is all I can spare.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The protesters also alleged that food rations had been reduced at the facility, forcing them to purchase costly items at the commissary.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

"We spent so many months with no fresh rations as the ships failed to reach here, or the limited vegetables they were carrying were spoiled during the long journey," she recalled.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

In 1941, the company purchased distilling facilities in Virginia and Lyons, N.Y., to increase production, then during the war it made pectin, a vital preservative used in military food rations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Pensioners and families living on fixed incomes are hit the hardest, forced to stretch rations, skip meals or rely on remittances from relatives abroad — if they are lucky enough to have them.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026

Eaten by Confederate soldiers during the war when rail lines were cut off, making food and rations scarce.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

Petrol and diesel are being rationed, and prices, already significantly higher than in neighbouring Thailand, have risen sharply.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

“Offal wasn’t rationed during the war, and my mother resorted to the sort of food she’d eaten as a child: tripe and onions, brains, tongue and braised rabbit,” he told the Independent in 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Gasoline was rationed, and the lines of automobiles could last two days and a night, constricting the city like a gigantic motionless boa tanning itself in the sun.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Those born earlier spent a larger share of their first 1,000 days under sugar rationing, while those born later experienced progressively less of it.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

A recent study using the same end of Britain’s sugar rationing found lower risks of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, while another study reported lower risks of heart disease and stroke.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Tehran, which has endured years of sanctions, is pushing more of the burden onto households by rationing fuel and electricity, restricting scarce foreign currency and cutting investment while preserving essential imports and state resources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Tehran is rationing scarce goods, limiting access to foreign currency, slashing investment and shifting more of the burden onto households while preserving strategic imports and the essential machinery of the state, analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

When the authorities discovered a number of these communications, they took the extraordinary measure of rationing toilet paper.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela