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Apocalyptic visions have never been in short supply, especially in our modern times.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Exempting certain health-care workers from the requirement could be particularly helpful for rural communities, where doctors and other providers are often in short supply.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
Along with empathy’s rise has come the concern that this quality is in short supply; studies have found that physicians’ empathy varies widely and declines during medical training, and that physicians often fail to act empathically even when patients clearly demonstrate an emotional need.
—Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Books about books, or bookstores, or people who work in bookstores, or in publishing, or in libraries, or anything book-adjacent, are not in short supply, perhaps for the obvious reason that writers are by definition people who are drawn to, and often write about, books.
—Susan Coll
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Exempting certain health-care workers from the requirement could be particularly helpful for rural communities, where doctors and other providers are often in short supply.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
Along with empathy’s rise has come the concern that this quality is in short supply; studies have found that physicians’ empathy varies widely and declines during medical training, and that physicians often fail to act empathically even when patients clearly demonstrate an emotional need.
—Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Books about books, or bookstores, or people who work in bookstores, or in publishing, or in libraries, or anything book-adjacent, are not in short supply, perhaps for the obvious reason that writers are by definition people who are drawn to, and often write about, books.
—Susan Coll
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
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“In short supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20short%20supply. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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