shortage
Example Sentences
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This was largely due to the reopening of a major auto assembly plant in Ontario, which was operating partially in the previous two months amid semiconductor chip shortages.
"Patients face medicine shortages, frequent switches to alternative products, and sometimes higher costs."
From Barron's
After years of insurgencies, residents in eastern Congo are accustomed to food shortages, inflation and destitution.
Alongside concerns over planet-warming carbon emissions are worries about water use to cool the data centre servers, which can lead to shortages on hot days.
From Barron's
The House and Senate recently passed their first significant bills in decades aimed at solving America’s housing shortage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
