rationing
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Jackson said Tehran’s response tool kit includes rationing fuel and electricity, restricting access to scarce hard currency, and printing money to fund wages, reconstruction and other government spending despite diminished revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Seven regions usually served by the reservoir have been affected, with 180,000 properties subject to rationing, the government said.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
But he found himself rationing the meal swipes, starting the semester conservatively and ending with extras, which he used by inviting his friends to come with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Puerto Rico has begun rationing water across the island amid an intense drought, leaving some residents without supply for 48 hours at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They had enough food—scavenged from the ruins, hunted in the woods, brought up from Asheville sometimes—but rationing was the name of the game, and everyone looked like they were one meal a day short.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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