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Bread and milk were in short supply after worried customers raided shelves at grocery stores and bakeries.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
Her precocity gives the novel its wit, but Shteyngart is also alert to the fact that a child, however bright, is fundamentally helpless.
Not to mention desperate for her parents’ affection, which is in short supply for Vera.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
Depravity is hardly in short supply, and any contemporary Malaparte would not lack material.
—Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Superintendents and treasurers are in short supply, and hiring searches can be costly.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
Her precocity gives the novel its wit, but Shteyngart is also alert to the fact that a child, however bright, is fundamentally helpless.
Not to mention desperate for her parents’ affection, which is in short supply for Vera.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
Depravity is hardly in short supply, and any contemporary Malaparte would not lack material.
—Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Superintendents and treasurers are in short supply, and hiring searches can be costly.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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“In short supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20short%20supply. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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