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By late August, rainfall had remained scarce across much of the U.S. territory, allowing drought conditions to spread rapidly.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Public-health experts warn that hard data remains scarce on the effects of nonalcoholic beverages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

At the same time, global warming is worsening droughts throughout the West, putting even more strain on scarce water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The only English population of the narrow-headed ant lives in the trust's Chudleigh Knighton Heath nature reserve and the nationally scarce erratic ant was recently discovered at the charity's Bovey Heathfield nature reserve.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“These other materials are very scarce, found only on the bottom of the ocean.”

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

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

Even as graduate hiring shows early glimmers of a rebound, summer internship opportunities appear to be getting scarcer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

If major food-producing regions were hit, some foods would become scarcer, driving up prices globally and potentially restricting choice, the report says.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 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 scarcest monkey in Borneo is the proboscis, or long-nosed.

From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat