short supply

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At the same time, the automaker just pumped $600 million into a South Korean unit that builds its lowest-cost U.S. models that are in hot demand and short supply.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

With gas in short supply, baking and cooking at home becomes an issue as well, Abu Ahmed Wafi, a 42-year-old displaced with his family in south Gaza, told AFP.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Better still, it boasted something in short supply: a satisfying ending.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Sympathy might well be in short supply for Scheffler.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

‘The practise of transcription in our dayes was no monster in theirs: Plagiarie had not its nativitie with printing,’ he concluded, ‘but began in times when thefts were difficult’ because books were in short supply.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton