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For the moment, clear exit ramps are scarce.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Another feather in the cap for value is that, while growth stocks generally lead during periods of slowing or scarce profit, profits are now generally picking up and broadening out.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Just as language models are built on countless texts drawn from the internet and elsewhere, humanoid robots often learn best from real-world physical data, which remains scarce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Child-care nonprofits are taking advantage of declining enrollment at TK-12 schools to turn vacant classrooms and even closed campuses into child-care hubs, expanding scarce infant and toddler slots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

They always know when you need them too much and pick precisely that season to make themselves scarce.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Drastic restrictions on cross-country travel took effect Thursday in cash-strapped Cuba, with spaces on ever scarcer trains and buses now reserved for the sick, people traveling for funerals and other emergencies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

The right response is more production and more productivity growth, not scarcer credit.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

Food, initially plentiful after the Germans denuded the farms of occupied Europe, became scarcer and worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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

In the meantime, students with backgrounds like his have become ever scarcer on campus.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

It can also have the most significant impact on water levels, as it happens at the time of year when water is scarcest.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2022

Two of the scarcest English books upon seals were compiled by clergymen.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan