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Where I lose patience, though, is when a director assumes the audience doesn’t have a collective brain cell among them and attempts to get away with serving action fans a ration of gruel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

I feel like I have to ration my questions because there are only so many times she will respond to me.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

With many years of military experience, I know what happens when you ration a scarce, aging fleet against rising demand: readiness erodes, and someone downstream absorbs the risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Private mini-markets and clothing stores with well-stocked shelves have largely supplanted state "bodegas" and ration books in the past five years since SMEs were introduced.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

The delivery boy from the bakery has supplied us with darning thread—90 cents for one measly skein—the milkman can get hold of ration books, an undertaker delivers cheese.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

If AI doesn’t pan out or become profitable, or if people don’t start paying for it, we’ll have a lot of chips with which to measure our food rations.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Detainees also say food rations were reduced, forcing them to buy costly items at the commissary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

After being a Tab obsessive for years before its discontinuation, Ward now carefully rations Coke Zero to avoid drinking three a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

"We spent so many months with no fresh rations as the ships failed to reach here, or the limited vegetables they were carrying were spoiled during the long journey," she recalled.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

And unlike the rations room, I don’t have to safecrack a lock.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

After the second world war, sugar remained rationed in Britain for several years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The fact that marginal cost pricing would lead to reselling, creating windfall profits for anyone lucky enough to get a rationed ticket, does not alter the principle.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Blackouts have hit Pakistan, the Philippines has imposed a four-day workweek, and countries including Slovenia and Bangladesh have rationed fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

The government has rationed gasoline sales and some hospital services due the fuel shortages, and Diaz-Canel acknowledged last week that his government had held talks with the United States.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

The brown cake was a special wartime treat, when sugar was tightly rationed.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

In the 1949 classic, a small group of Londoners discover treasure and declare independence making them exempt from post-war rationing and other bureaucratic restrictions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

So the rationing helps for them self-govern a little bit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

But the rationing has frustrated many ordinary citizens, with Nasanjargal telling AFP that the lines are "very troublesome and extremely difficult overall".

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

This would include waiving of taxes on animal feed inputs, as well as "active retail price monitoring to deter opportunity price gouging and rationing".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The electricity is out for power rationing when we arrive, but thankfully, there's plenty of water.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins