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shortfall

[shawrt-fawl] / ˈʃɔrtˌfɔl /


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With public finances under strain, Schomaker said COP17 in Armenia would focus on ways to better engage the private sector in helping close the $700-billion annual funding shortfall for the 2030 nature protection goals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Most were ready to handle the revenue shortfall by increasing fees, assessments and utility taxes, according to the note.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Bank of Spain appears to agree, and has estimated that the country has a housing shortfall of around 750,000 homes.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Indeed, one big consequence of the data-center shortfall will be more money going into so-called behind-the-meter energy, Morgan Stanley’s analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

In five weeks, on November 29, the index of subprime mortgage bonds, called the ABX, would post its first interest-rate shortfall.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Like culinary dishes, market crashes require specific ingredients: overstretched valuations, high debt levels and cash shortfalls, high volatility, rising capital costs, contagion vectors and poor shock absorbers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

A new report this week by the Defense Department’s inspector general says the war “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

"The munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," the report said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

It did, however, note the inventory shortfalls and reveal "industrial base bottlenecks" for munitions resupply.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

It said that Governor Thomas Corbett had proposed that the state’s institutions of higher learning should consider closing their budget shortfalls by drilling for natural gas on their campuses.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove




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