How to Use short-staffed in a Sentence
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But on this day, a worker went home sick, leaving her unit short-staffed.
—Molly Parker, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
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The rest of the county shelters are similarly short-staffed, the report said.
—Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
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On Sunday, the weather and being short-staffed kept him from attending the game in Dallas.
—Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
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Grossberg said Bartiromo’s show was so short-staffed that she was forced to do multiple jobs at once.
—Sarah Fitzpatrick, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2023
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According to Duke, the current team of nurses was short-staffed on nearly every shift.
—Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
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But in bureaucratic or short-staffed environments, even six months to a year of notice may not be long enough.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
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Hernandez was news editor of the school paper at the time, but was also left with much of the reporting and writing work due to a short-staffed newsroom.
—Sanjana Ganguly-Fitzgerald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
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At the same time, the department is operating short-staffed — down 81 health inspectors.
—Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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Any potential exit of the number '7' would be disastrous for Xavi Hernandez's team, however, and could leave it short-staffed on the wings.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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They also were placed on restricted duties, leaving the hospital even more short-staffed in patient care.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
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Over the summer, the 911 center was chronically short-staffed, according to OUC’s data.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
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Carmack-Altwies said her office is short-staffed, and will have only 15 of its 24 prosecutor positions filled by the end of April.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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His new paper takes that a step farther: The thrust is that for short-staffed or under-skilled companies, existing part-time workers who want to log more hours could be better utilized.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 July 2023
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Interviews with 13 current city staffers suggest that while the situation has improved this year at some agencies, others are still short-staffed, and triage remains the norm.
—Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
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The travel industry remains short-staffed, and particularly for the back-office jobs that require a lot of training.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
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Interstate Navigation was short-staffed, and did not have the necessary crew and security to properly staff the ferry and deal with the crowds, the suit alleges.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
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Allen said the city’s towing and booting authority team was severely short-staffed until last year, when the budget increased for that program.
—Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
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In this scenario, the thinking goes, the firm would be worse off with a host of disgruntled employees rather than being perpetually short-staffed as a result of mass layoffs.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
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Last summer, the company received far fewer applications and brought on just 19 students, leaving it short-staffed by 5%.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
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Tourists should know that recovery remains the island’s priority and expect that some places could be short-staffed and some attractions may be closed, Kehaulani Watson said.
—Julia Wick, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
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As the health care workforce continues to be short-staffed, state legislators are considering a bill to increase the minimum wage across the industry.
—Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
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But these jobs — which are grueling and poorly paid, and thus chronically short-staffed — are exactly where many migrant children are ending up.
—Hannah Dreier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
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Related: Celtics blow out Bucks in impressive fashion Boston was already somewhat short-staffed.
—Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
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Carmack-Altwies had said that her office was too overwhelmed with other casework, and was too short-staffed, to handle it without outside assistance.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
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Because of vacation season, some polling centers are so short-staffed that the very first in-person voters on Sunday risk being deputized as volunteers.
—Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
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With its 53 percent staff vacancy rate, Waupun is the most short-staffed facility in a chronically understaffed state prison system.
—Mario Koran Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
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Last year state regulators in Minnesota, who have complained of being short-staffed, found out about unauthorized wells only after dozens of people reported their faucets had run dry.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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MarketWatch - Most businesses are still short-staffed despite high-profile tech layoffs and a possible banking crisis.
—Amber Burton, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
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State reports document residents complaining to government inspectors that facilities are so short-staffed that call lights go unanswered for more than an hour at a time.
—Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
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Amato was fired last summer after his short-staffed store switched to drive-through-only operations without management approval.
—Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
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