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Now, a new study on the diet of gray wolves suggests that the population regrowth is a result of the animals feasting on cattle, as their natural prey sources remain comparatively scarce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

What the team’s recommendations have in common: scarce physical assets, high barriers to entry, rising replacement costs and limited risk of technical obsolescence.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The limestone landscape in the region has very little soil, making traditional underground nesting sites scarce.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Another Turkish company designed and installed equipment at a factory in Texas that is now one of the Pentagon’s largest suppliers of globally scarce artillery rounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

“There is scarce a foot of water in the well,” he whispered.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

Since early March, diesel prices here have risen sharply, inbound freight costs have spiked, and fertilizer—roughly a third of globally traded supply normally transits the strait—has become scarcer and dramatically more expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

By the time the next crew swapped with his that afternoon, they were scarcer: “One every 30 minutes, roughly,” Ulibarri recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

It was best to go as late in the year as you could, because the closer to winter it was, the scarcer beef was and the higher the price, you could get.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

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