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Prices for already scarce food spiked; many went without.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Japan and South Korea are using more coal to replace scarce and expensive oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the weeks following the June primary election, Becerra made himself scarce on the campaign trail and attended few public events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Decorated pots were also produced using higher quality clay, suggesting that the migrant potters were allowed access to scarce, superior materials for their work.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Bellow on bellow, his voice mounted, with scarce interval for breath.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

There is also mounting evidence from the geological record that when eukaryotes were first evolving, oxygen was likely much scarcer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Freedom Capital Markets analyst Paul Meeks told MarketWatch that the supply-and-demand gap for power, while “already wide,” could get “desperately worse” if power becomes even scarcer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Jack Zhu, a private-equity investor in Beijing, was looking for a second act after investment opportunities became scarcer in China’s slowing economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"What is changing is the role hotter summers are playing in making water scarcer and intensifying tensions that already existed."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

As long as I stayed with my sass and sassur, I at least had a place to sleep and food to eat, though food seemed to be getting scarcer.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Situating the reactors on water would take pressure off of one of the port’s scarcest resources — land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

But periodically investors get a reminder that one of the scarcest AI resources is top talent.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026

Hatakeyama compares this to an updated version of Liebig's famous barrel analogy, in which a plant's growth is limited by its shortest stave, representing the scarcest resource.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

The scarcest resource in the AI arms race is access to computing, which is why OpenAI and others are pledging to spend trillions of dollars in the coming years to make sure the capacity expands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

You are possessed of the bull Apis, and the books of Hermes, which are the scarcest things in the universe.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by