How to Use scarcity in a Sentence
scarcity
noun
- Scarcity of food forced the herds to move.
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But the flip side of that is a real scarcity of resources.
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Popular Mechanics,
14 Apr. 2023
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Drury added that deals have been hard to find on any of these brands’ EVs due to demand and scarcity.
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Patrick George,
The Verge,
29 Dec. 2022
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More people having jobs, scarcity of products, which makes the prices go up, and the rest.
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ABC News,
13 Feb. 2022
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This puts the birds at risk as the state could still see some extreme weather or food-source scarcity.
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Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
17 Feb. 2023
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This data scarcity has led to a whole lot of weird new ways to get unique data.
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Emma Roth,
The Verge,
14 Jan. 2025
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Agriculture is one of the main drivers of water scarcity in the West.
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Leia Larsen,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
12 Dec. 2022
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One reason for the doll’s scarcity, Fleming writes, could be the Mavs’ lack of success when the doll was released.
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José Sánchez Córdova,
Dallas News,
28 July 2023
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Part of the difficulty is due to the scarcity of flights into and out of China.
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Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2022
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This is due to their scarcity and high intrinsic worth.
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Laxmi Corp,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
28 Sep. 2022
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There's a scarcity of work and of jobs in the journalism industry at large right now.
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Eric Deggans,
NPR,
4 Jan. 2025
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The scarcity of good jobs increases pressure to work long hours.
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Yucheng Tang,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 July 2023
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Home sales are at a 14-year low, and the scarcity of listings is likely to nudge purchase prices higher.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2024
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How should the country address the scarcity of mental-health care services for kids?
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Andrea Petersen,
WSJ,
30 Oct. 2022
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Scientists blame the scarcity on climate change, with huge swaths of China scorched by the fiercest heat wave in 60 years.
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Lyric Li,
Washington Post,
23 Aug. 2022
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Lower crop yields will mean more scarcity and higher food prices.
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Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
28 Nov. 2024
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But the scarcity may be a genuine matter of supply and demand.
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CNN,
3 Feb. 2022
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At the most base level, there are only 30 jobs to be a coach in the NBA, and scarcity can make people compromise.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2022
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Toro says farmer have seen their cattle die and have lost their crops because of water scarcity.
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Daniela Mohor,
CNN,
22 Nov. 2022
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Chicken and dumplings makes the most of chicken in scarcity, when a single bird must feed a multitude.
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Southern Living Test Kitchen,
Southern Living,
30 Dec. 2023
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And, from a medical point of view, the scarcity of the new antivirals is only one of the challenges for doctors.
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Ariel Hart,
ajc,
8 Feb. 2022
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These problems are the result of blessing, not scarcity.
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al,
13 Apr. 2022
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Most of our conversations were about scarcity and how things were tight.
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R29 Team,
refinery29.com,
6 Sep. 2024
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In the Global North, at least, scarcity gave way to superabundance.
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Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2023
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The issue is not one of scarcity, as the antiviral is widely abundant.
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2024
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Fewer tokens dumped on the market means more scarcity, and that means higher prices.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune Crypto,
11 July 2023
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The results are familiar to those old enough to remember: scarcity, and the rise of black markets.
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New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
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With that type of talent being a scarcity, this has led to a supply-and-demand issue.
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Nadav Arbel,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2022
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Land in cities is scarce, and zoning restrictions breed even more scarcity.
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Samantha Delouya,
CNN,
26 July 2024
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Southern California and the state as a whole are also facing water scarcity in the years to come.
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Umair Irfan,
Vox,
15 Jan. 2025
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