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This ability to pull students deeper into their studies promises to enhance engagement, a commodity often in short supply.
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Denny's is the latest breakfast chain to charge extra for orders containing eggs, an ever-costlier commodity in short supply due to the killing of millions of egg-laying hens as a result of bird flu.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
The announcement on Friday effectively ends an FDA policy that allowed drug compounders to make less expensive off-brand versions of the semaglutide injections when the brand-name products are in short supply.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
The cutoff is causing some 130,000 women to lose access each day to contraception, according to the Guttmacher Institute (condoms are now in short supply in Zimbabwe).
—Nicholas D. Kristof, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Denny's is the latest breakfast chain to charge extra for orders containing eggs, an ever-costlier commodity in short supply due to the killing of millions of egg-laying hens as a result of bird flu.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
The announcement on Friday effectively ends an FDA policy that allowed drug compounders to make less expensive off-brand versions of the semaglutide injections when the brand-name products are in short supply.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
The cutoff is causing some 130,000 women to lose access each day to contraception, according to the Guttmacher Institute (condoms are now in short supply in Zimbabwe).
—Nicholas D. Kristof, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
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“In short supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20short%20supply. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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