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Dr Novita explains that conditions on the ground have become much harsher even in recent weeks, as the prolonged drought makes water increasingly scarce.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

International visitors were also scarce, with Los Angeles welcoming 700,000 international arrivals in June and July — roughly 80,000 visitors below 2024 levels for the same period, the report says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Corporate debt, meanwhile, has surged even as financially attractive projects have grown more scarce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Japan and South Korea are using more coal to replace scarce and expensive oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

There were some two hundred Negroes of the Ethiopian Regiment present, clustered around three flames that scarce would have warmed ten.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

Freedom Capital Markets analyst Paul Meeks told MarketWatch that the supply-and-demand gap for power, while “already wide,” could get “desperately worse” if power becomes even scarcer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Since the start of the war, certain Iranian products have become scarcer, and others have seen their prices soar, says Morteza Asaadi, who runs the grocery store his father founded in 1963.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 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

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

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

Some of the scarcest books printed by Caxton were among the latter.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin