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• Contractors who can help dry out homes will be in short supply, so vet any business offering to help.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• Those drugs had been officially designated as in short supply since 2022.
  — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
• But police jobs were in short supply when state funding was drastically curtailed and McDonnell moved west.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• The book claims that Trump secretly sent Abbott Covid-19 testing devices to Putin when the machines were in short supply.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• But the drug’s been in short supply and very hard to find.
  — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 27 May 2024
• The drug has been in short supply since the end of 2022 and Diamond set out to learn why.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2024
• But one of the best things about Towa Bird is that for her, verve is never in short supply.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
• But in his 13-month tenure, those were in short supply.
  — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Now with the sauce in short supply, those lucky enough to have their hands on the product are hoping for a cash boon.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Check it out: But what happens when shells are in short supply?
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2024
• Sriracha is in short supply these days — and that spicy crisis is linked to the climate crisis.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• Two of the drugs in short supply are carboplatin and cisplatin.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
• Optimism for Thomas doesn’t seem to be in short supply.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 8 May 2023
• Charm is in short supply at the movies these days, but Gosling and Blunt give us every reason to believe in it.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 2 June 2024
• And trust among the American public is in short supply.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2022
• Gazans were able to go out to stock up on essentials, though long lines remained and goods were in short supply.
  — Jeremy White, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The workers who care for aging adults are already in short supply.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• Texas Hill Country peaches should be in short supply this year thanks to a mild winter.
  — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 14 June 2023
• If the strike were to last a month or more, supplies needed by factories could be in short supply.
  — Anna Nagurney, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
• But production slots for both widebody and narrowbody jets are in short supply through the rest of the decade.
  — Guy Johnson, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
• But production slots for both widebody and narrowbody jets are in short supply through the rest of the decade.
  — Guy Johnson, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
• Although shortages are not new, the number of drugs in short supply has grown steadily for about two years.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
• His humility was a trait that is in short supply these days.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2024
• Purposeful passes and movement off the ball were in short supply no matter who was on the court.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The survey results come at a time when primary care providers are in short supply.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• Those resources are now in short supply, and hundreds of thousands of people have fled south.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Lithium is not in short supply, nor is the planet in danger of running out of lithium.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Bangla is among the tongues spoken in India, where he was born, but Bangla-speaking actors in the United States are in short supply.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• Anesthesia has been in short supply for about two weeks, doctors say.
  — Abu Bakr Bashir, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• But reasonable voices are in short supply, and drowned out by the loudest, the angriest, and most adamant.
  — William Falk, The Week, 1 May 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024