Definition of PAUCITY

Examples of paucity in a Sentence

If you had one of those Yugoslav names with a paucity of vowels, you might sprinkle in a few … — Calvin Trillin, Time, 22 May 2000 For my part, I find increasingly that I miss the simplicity, the almost willful paucity, of the English way of doing things. — Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1999 This relative paucity of freeloaders and deadbeats means that rookie Americans, as a group, more than pay their way. — Jaclyn Fierman, Fortune, 9 Aug. 1993 a paucity of useful answers to the problem of traffic congestion at rush hour

Recent Examples on the Web That brings us to Padres manager Jayce Tingler, whose offseason hiring furrowed more than a few brows, given his paucity of managerial experience – nothing beyond the Dominican or Arizona summer leagues, save for a 10-game winter ball stint. — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, "Opinion: Don't get sucked into the Fernando Tatis Jr. outrage cycle – his grand slam was totally fine," 18 Aug. 2020 This paucity of beds and healthcare professionals make economically efficient, short-stay models attractive. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, "India’s overburdened hospitals could actually benefit from more elective surgeries," 9 Aug. 2020 But some experts say that OR-54’s lonely travels highlight the paucity of wolves in states like California, where fewer than a dozen of the animals are known to live. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, "After an 8,700-Mile Journey, an Endangered Gray Wolf Is Found Dead," 11 Feb. 2020 Both figures are likely an undercount, given the paucity of covid-19 testing in some parts of the world. — Washington Post, "Global death toll surpasses 500,000," 29 June 2020 Although water ice has been detected in the shadowy depths of craters at the natural satellite’s poles, there remains a paucity of in-depth scientific data to truly tag it as water-rich. — Leonard David, Scientific American, "NASA’s Hunt for Lunar Water Intensifies," 24 June 2020 The paucity of underrepresented minorities in an industry increasingly dominating the U.S. economy drew sharp scrutiny from company shareholders and Washington lawmakers. — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, "George Floyd protests lead to reckoning as Black employees speak out on racism and discrimination in the workplace," 17 June 2020 Yoshiharu Izumi, an analyst at SBI Securities Co., says that Keyence holds talks with shareholders and that reassures investors, and doesn’t view the paucity of disclosure as a problem. — Gearoid Reidy, Bloomberg.com, "A $100 Billion Robotics Supplier Is Japan’s Second Biggest Firm," 7 June 2020 But there are two main reasons for the paucity of potential pets. — Mandy Behbehani, SFChronicle.com, "Everybody in the Bay Area wants a furry friend for the pandemic," 3 June 2020

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