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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

With deliveries easy to hit scarce, Markram and Bedingham attempted forced back-foot drives and edged to slip for 37 and 49 respectively.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Few women would take such a risk, so midwives were scarce: on the day Judy left for Wyoming, Mother became the only midwife for a hundred miles.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

"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

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

As they traveled farther into the maze, the glass lamps became scarcer, until only a stray torch or a narrow boat’s dim lantern lit the rotting boardwalks.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

They are both constructed on arid, volcanic rocks, which produce the smallest amount of verdure and reflect the greatest amount of heat; water in both of them is the scarcest of commodities.

From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent