scarce
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What has changed is the economics: A doctor’s time is scarce and expensive, and an AI’s is nearly free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Jackson said Tehran’s response tool kit includes rationing fuel and electricity, restricting access to scarce hard currency, and printing money to fund wages, reconstruction and other government spending despite diminished revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“These financing platforms will help customers access scarce compute at scale and build the DSX AI factories that will power every industry and country in the age of AI,” Huang said in a separate statement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
With jobs scarce in Afghanistan, the area has drawn workers from across the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Most of it is a fragile land base where the elevation is high, rainfall is scarce, and drought is a part of life.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The right response is more production and more productivity growth, not scarcer credit.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
If major food-producing regions were hit, some foods would become scarcer, driving up prices globally and potentially restricting choice, the report says.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
Conversely, they make Waste Management’s assets scarcer and more valuable.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
His father was a coal miner, but those jobs, he said, are scarcer and less stable than before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
By late March and early April, game was growing scarcer as the animals migrated north, fleeing the onset of Antarctic winter.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
As she climbs the corporate ladder of a Texas-based oil company, Bunny slowly realizes that energy isn’t just a matter of machines, but also the toughest and scarcest commodity for all modern women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Two of the scarcest English books upon seals were compiled by clergymen.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan
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