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scarcity

[skair-si-tee] / ˈskɛər sɪ ti /


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Nonetheless, the “overarching theme” for the industry is that there is a scarcity of compute power.

From MarketWatch

The tardigrade’s secret, we learn, lies in its ability “to live without that most precious resource of life”: In times of trial or scarcity, they self-dessicate, losing 98% of their bodies’ water.

From The Wall Street Journal

Let me explain, and at the risk of coming across like a guy building an ark in the desert, offer options for adding dividends at a time of relative scarcity.

From Barron's

They say they are increasingly positive on Lynas’s expansion in heavy rare earths, particularly given the scarcity of supply of those materials globally.

From The Wall Street Journal

Since the start the Islamic Revolution, 31,000 of Iran’s 69,000 villages have been abandoned, with water scarcity a major contributing factor.

From The Wall Street Journal