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shortfall

[shawrt-fawl] / ˈʃɔrtˌfɔl /


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The Royal College of Radiologists said NHS Wales currently had 88 fewer radiologists than it needed - a 28% shortfall.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

U.S. stocks declined as a revenue shortfall from Google parent Alphabet caused a historic drop in its market capitalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"The company cannot simply pass increases of that scale on to residents, and the resulting shortfall has placed its current operating model under unsustainable financial pressure," it said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The projected energy shortfall “will likely increase the urgency, and premia paid, to secure time-to-power solutions in the U.S.,” the analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

In five weeks, on November 29, the index of subprime mortgage bonds, called the ABX, would post its first interest-rate shortfall.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The revenue shortfalls in Silicon Valley have stoked a wider concern about the sustainability of the massive debt piles accrued to chase the AI-infrastructure building boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Steep price increases and supply shortfalls in some cases have sparked protests in parts of Asia, Latin America and Europe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Resolution Foundation estimates that more than 1.1 million low income renters now face shortfalls between their housing benefit and their actual rent, with the gap expected to reach a record high this October.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

The unemployment caused home foreclosures, leading to shortfalls in property tax receipts, and therefore holes in the school budget.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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