as in shortage
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
an undersupply of affordable office space
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Recent Examples of undersupply
This undersupply raises housing prices and prevents many Americans from becoming homeowners.
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Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2025
In 2024, the market shifted, leaving an overabundance of training compute and an undersupply of inference compute.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
This increase in cost ratio is due to undersupply conditions and inflation.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
Where the candidates stand on housing A chronic undersupply of homes has helped catapult prices to near-record highs.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2025
In 2024, the market shifted, leaving an overabundance of training compute and an undersupply of inference compute.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
This increase in cost ratio is due to undersupply conditions and inflation.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
Where the candidates stand on housing A chronic undersupply of homes has helped catapult prices to near-record highs.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for undersupply
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undersupply
Noun
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But 2025 marks the highest number of staffing shortages since 2018.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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This is driven by a shortage of primary care doctors and patients’ desire for more personalized care, Harrell said.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Sep. 2025
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And the noticeable dips also don’t come for the generations of players who would be expecting to play their peak years for England during wartime either — note the lack of games in the 1940s in the earlier graph.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The lack of winning has been exactly the problem during the Chuba years at Carolina.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Undersupply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undersupply. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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