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Corporate debt, meanwhile, has surged even as financially attractive projects have grown more scarce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Doricko says, "Jordan residents often only have water for hours per week from their utility because of how scarce water is, and it's a privilege to try to help this storied region."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the weeks following the June primary election, Becerra made himself scarce on the campaign trail and attended few public events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Japan and South Korea are using more coal to replace scarce and expensive oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

With the Germans losing the war on both fronts, food became even more scarce.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

There is also mounting evidence from the geological record that when eukaryotes were first evolving, oxygen was likely much scarcer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

"What is changing is the role hotter summers are playing in making water scarcer and intensifying tensions that already existed."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

As they traveled farther into the maze, the glass lamps became scarcer, until only a stray torch or a narrow boat’s dim lantern lit the rotting boardwalks.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Strike-fighter pilots are the scarcest asset in a carrier strike group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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

The latter group is rarely met with complete; and three of the scarcest names alone sold for as much as all the others put together.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various