dearth

A dearth of available homes contributed to cutthroat competition and soaring home prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

In terms of new software, the Japanese gaming giant has now "shown everything that they have" for this calendar year, with a dearth of big original titles, Toto told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

This dearth of fun places to gather is nothing new in America, online or otherwise.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

In a district with the highest poverty rate in the city, residents are concerned about issues including illegal dumping, public safety, a dearth of grocery stores and a sense of being neglected by City Hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

There was a dearth of pens that day in class.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Old timber towns with shuttered mills, flood-soaked cities and rural areas left off high-speed broadband networks suffered dearths of economic opportunity, even as Puget Sound’s largest cities flourished with explosive tech growth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

Both countries accordingly, though subject occasionally to dearths, have been famous for their great fertility.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier

There appeared one of those dearths not unusual in Hindostan; the population of the famished province cried out for rice; the stores of which, diminished by nature, had for months mysteriously disappeared.

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

There is no vermin in the land like him: he slanders both heaven and earth with pretended dearths when there is no cause of scarcity.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

No doubt in this case and in all others, many checks concur, and different checks under different circumstances; periodical dearths, depending on unfavourable seasons, being probably the most important of all.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin