How to Use undersupply in a Sentence

undersupply

noun
  • All three metros have an undersupply of about 5%, the analysis found.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 July 2022
  • Water shortages are a two-part equation: undersupply and overuse.
    Philip Kiefer, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Automakers have been plagued by years of supply chain issues, chip shortages, and more recently, work stoppages, which has led to a steady undersupply in the car market.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Declines in the West are due to the tech industry slowdown and a severe lack of affordability after decades of undersupply.
    Lance Lambert, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Economic pressures and a lack of staff contribute to the undersupply, healthcare experts said.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • Soaring rents and an undersupply of affordable housing are the key factors behind the evictions, according to Shachter.
    John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • As the tech economy in the state has exploded, regressive housing policies have led to an undersupply of housing, resulting in the highest rate of poverty in the country.
    Zack Rosen, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • Our country faces an undersupply of providers and postpartum support.
    Courtney Lund O'Neil, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In Berlin, a nurse in an intensive care unit who prefers to be called Nico because he’s not authorized to speak to the news media loves working with patients, and the undersupply of nurses means ironclad job stability.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The coronavirus omicron variant has quickly become the dominant variant in many parts of the world, accounting for 73.2% of cases in the U.S. and leading to an undersupply of a Covid treatment most successful against omicron.
    Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • There also remains a fundamental undersupply of homes, with a wide range of estimates projecting that the country may be short of anywhere between 1.5 million to 5 million homes.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • When the league’s average ticket price goes up in a year when 10 teams are at least 10 games out before the season is halfway done, supply and demand is tilted, with an oversupply of tanking teams and an undersupply of competitive ones.
    Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • At the same time, there was a dramatic undersupply of multifamily properties.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In late March, regional Russian officials were sounding alarm bells about a drastic undersupply of protective equipment and pervasive confusion about how they were supposed to tackle the virus.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 14 May 2020
  • Very often, this leads to overproduction or undersupply as producers misjudge the level of demand, resulting in either glut or shortages, with a corresponding impact on pricing and inventory.
    Jon Stojan, Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2023

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