scarce

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When pyrrolysine is scarce, the same codon functions as a stop signal.

From Science Daily

She said that available rental properties in Dumfries and Galloway were extremely scarce.

From BBC

Many widely used photocatalyst metals, including ruthenium and iridium, are scarce and expensive.

From Science Daily

You only learn that when you get a professional job - but spaces are scarce for British managers in the Premier League, and they are dwindling in the Championship too.

From BBC

“The financial system, optimized over decades for a world of scarce human minds, is repricing. That repricing is painful, disorderly, and far from complete.”

From Barron's