shortage
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Anthropic's commercial success has been accompanied by difficulties in meeting demand for computing power, amid a shortage of chips and servers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The Association of American Medical Colleges projects the U.S. could face a shortage of between 20,200 and 40,400 primary care physicians by 2036.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
But there is no shortage of warnings that the stock market is headed for a broad decline:
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“We have a housing shortage that is so extreme that this city is actually pushing out working families every single day,” Raman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
People often assume there was a shortage of men to fly the available aircraft.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Such long-range attacks sparked major fuel shortages earlier this summer.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Claims of U.S. munitions shortages are false,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
This has triggered a humanitarian crisis marked by rolling blackouts, the collapse of tourism, agricultural shortages and worsened medical care.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The deadly weather front in February of 2021 meant multiple deaths, massive power grid failures, freezing temperatures and water shortages for millions of Texans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“There were shortages of food everywhere, and the guards’ food was not much better than ours, but at least their vegetables were clean and not rotten, and their bread was not made with sawdust.”
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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