droughts

noun

variants also drouths
plural of drought
as in shortages
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number there's been a drought of good movies this year

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Recent Examples of droughts Rising sea levels risk submerging low-lying habitats, and increasingly severe droughts threaten to dry up food and shade. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026 During droughts, algae blooms have turned waterways bright green, posing health threats for people and animals. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 Officials say the Susquehanna River, which runs from Cooperstown, New York, to Havre de Grace, Maryland, is only used as a supplemental water supply during severe droughts. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Heat waves and droughts are also getting more intense due to rising temperatures. — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 The third largest issue affecting heritage sites, coming in around 30 percent, per the study, was extreme weather events like flooding, storms, droughts, and wildfires. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The Pacific has seen an unusually busy hurricane season, which experts have attributed to El Niño, which has fueled crippling droughts in Mexico and Central America and floods in other parts of the region. — Fabiola Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 Overall, parts of the world that get more rainfall will experience less petrichor, whereas areas that have droughts will experience more, says Jeppe Lund Nielsen, a professor of microbial physiology at Aalborg University in Denmark. — Gregory Wakeman, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026 Climate change is causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage every year from floods, fires, droughts and other consequences of a rapidly warming planet. — Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
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  1. shortages
  2. lacks
Noun
  • Musk has repeatedly treated the sports car as a lower priority than Tesla’s other projects, while also blaming supply chain shortages for earlier delays.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Attacks on oil refineries have led to widespread fuel shortages, while strikes on warehouses operated by Russia’s largest online retailers, Wildberries and Ozon, have caused chaos for micro-entrepreneurs who rely on their networks.
    — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of shortages
Noun
  • Tasked with shepherding his major stars through bombastic performances, Fern’s directing lacks focus.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
  • While Verse and Alex Wright will man the edges and Denzel Ward remains an elite anchor in the secondary, the front seven lacks proven game-disrupting star power, leaving the defense reliant on scheme and discipline to hold up.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of lacks

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