rations

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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

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

"Asia rations, switches to coal and can experience shortages in places" while "Europe pays very high prices to avoid shortages," said an energy industry insider on condition of anonymity.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 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

The two spies had better luck in Concord, where they learned that the Patriots were grinding meal into flour for soldiers’ rations and were storing “powder and cartridges.”

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen