scarce
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Food is scarce or goes rotten because of a lack of refrigeration.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Service stations remained scarce, but gasoline could be purchased at hardware stores, and every town had a tinkerer or two—often a bicycle repairman turned mechanic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The artificial-intelligence investment thesis has always rested on a single claim: The demand is real, the chips are scarce and the cash flows will follow.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Combined with faster deoxygenation rates, these conditions increase the likelihood of hypoxia events, when oxygen becomes too scarce to support many forms of aquatic life.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
Work in the fields was scarce, and when he finally found a job thinning lettuce, he lasted only a few days because of his back pain.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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