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“Modern administrative states are built around processes that are difficult to use, often deliberately so, which helps ration demand,” Freedman writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

The problem here is that incredible bills were racked up, so much so that many of those companies have now begun to ration the use of these models.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Prior to coming to sabotage school, Dasch was always "hungry like the dickens," and he made sure to carefully divvy up his bread ration and carry it with him.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

The Guatemalan government, for example, says it has 1.1 million rations ready to distribute in the face of a food security emergency.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 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

From meagre rations, he plumped for Johnny Kenny.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

Since he was sick and unable to help with the workload, he tried to give his food rations away.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

Pack ice blocked the English Channel; coal stockpiles froze; electricity was rationed to five hours a day; and newspapers reduced their size to conserve paper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 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

"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

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

They are implementing rationing and diverting resources from investments to hold out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Presuming he's rationing his food, he's got enough to last three hundred and fifty more days.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir