scarce
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“As governments and companies seek financing, markets are absorbing unprecedented issuance, increasing competition for scarce capital,” said Jason Pride, chief of investment strategy and research, and Michael Reynolds, vice president of investment strategy, at Glenmede.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a mass-adoption scenario, will people just send out their Muse agents like Pokémon to fight over scarce tables at every popular restaurant?
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Large areas close to Yellowstone remain evacuated, while across the US, shelter, fuel, food and clean water become increasingly scarce.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Accounts of the Battle of Hengyang are scarce, particularly in English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Pelennor lay dim beneath him, fading away to the scarce guessed line of the Great River.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Local-content rules make the eligible supply even scarcer.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
Even boys’ names—which have always been scarcer than girls’—have been proliferating wildly.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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
It is with us the scarcest and most valuable of metals, and all things are valued by it.
From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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