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shortfall

[shawrt-fawl] / ˈʃɔrtˌfɔl /


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The FBU says there's a shortfall of 400 firefighters in Wales.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Like the rest of the tech industry, which is facing an urgent compute shortfall, Shashua said the startup didn’t want to scramble for GPUs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Since taking over the World Bank in 2023, the former Mastercard CEO has sketched an ambitious plan to fight poverty by addressing an estimated shortfall in the developing world of 800 million jobs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

A weak year for USC’s health system deepened the shortfall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

This all started with me noticing a 60-liter shortfall in water production.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Like culinary dishes, market crashes require specific ingredients: overstretched valuations, high debt levels and cash shortfalls, high volatility, rising capital costs, contagion vectors and poor shock absorbers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

It did, however, note the inventory shortfalls and reveal "industrial base bottlenecks" for munitions resupply.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Earlier this year, Metrolink made service cuts due to budget shortfalls, mechanical issues and supply constraints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Navy may have only another six months of blockade left in it before maintenance and equipment shortfalls force compromises in how we surveil, block and escort ships in the Persian Gulf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It said that Governor Thomas Corbett had proposed that the state’s institutions of higher learning should consider closing their budget shortfalls by drilling for natural gas on their campuses.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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