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By February, heads of artillery units in several regions said they had less than 10% of the supplies they needed as Kyiv rushed to economize shells.

She began with an incisive reading of Webern’s Six Pieces for Orchestra, keeping her conducting elegantly restrained, even economized — gestures that befitted this sharply angled, brief set.

Desperate to economize shells, military leaders ordered units to fire at only precise targets.

Jewison economized by having his cinematographer use a hand-held camera instead of fancier equipment.

Even laboratory mice, if deprived of food, can enter a state called torpor, a kind of standby mode that economizes energy.