scarce
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"Many mesothermic fishes are already heavily impacted by overfishing of themselves and also their prey species, so their elevated energy needs make them especially vulnerable when their food becomes scarce."
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026
On the coast, where the hunting was scarce, they traded for dog meat and roots until they had nothing left to sell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
More-powerful AI chips need water to cool them, and managing that increasingly scarce resource is now mission-critical for any hyperscaler that wants to maintain good public relations and be a reasonable steward of the environment.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
"Money's very scarce in education but it's fully justified."
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
With the changing of the season he was scarce.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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