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Noun
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This may be because of fear of resistance or just paucity of time as leaders dynamically react to ongoing change and disruption.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025 -
England have gone from an abundance to a paucity of wingers seemingly overnight.—
Steve Madeley,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
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Early signs of magnesium deficiency include fatigue, appetite loss, nausea, vomiting, and weakness.—
Johna Burdeos,
Health,
2 Apr. 2025
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Korsakoff syndrome is a type of dementia that usually occurs as a late-stage effect of thiamine deficiency, especially if Wernicke encephalopathy is not treated.—
Brigid Dwyer,
Verywell Health,
31 Mar. 2025
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Moving up the ranks quickly can create feelings of inadequacy.—
Tanya Arturi,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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And here self-doubt and inadequacy offer an access.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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This speaks to a larger issue of the collective shift away from physical retail, the rising costs of overhead and commercial rent, and the scarcity of grants and funding available to independent entrepreneurs.—
Shelton Boyd-Griffith,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2025
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The model originally spawned from scarcity is likely to be recovered as a consequence of abundance (or a scarcity of attention).—
Jim Euchner,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Francis’s blood tests confirmed an improvement and that a mild kidney insufficiency had subsided.—
Jason Horowitz,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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Pope Francis, 88, spent his 10th day at Rome's Gemelli Hospital Monday for a complex lung infection that has led to the early stages of kidney insufficiency, according to the Vatican.—
Greg Norman,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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The problems of poverty — food insecurity, substandard housing, evictions, addiction, unemployment, exposure to violence — impact how kids learn.—
Adam Schwartz,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Mar. 2025
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Globalization did lift more than a billion people out of poverty, an astounding feat.—
Michael B. G. Froman,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In 2021, as automakers tried to ramp up production that had been curtailed in the first year of the pandemic, a shortage of parts, most notably computer chips, cut into car production.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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Labor costs, in particular, have ballooned amid staffing shortages and wage hikes, with much of the value siphoned off by contract labor firms.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Related Articles Terry Rozier on his Heat reality, ‘My style of play hasn’t been the best fit’ Even with Robinson’s absence the Heat entered Monday’s game torrid with their 3-point shooting.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2025
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But Watkins’ absence unquestionably hurts their chances.—
Anne M. Peterson,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Meagerness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meagerness. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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