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Six example sentences with paucity, each labelled with its topic.
The paucity of local engineers forced the founders to hire remotely, and half the team works six time zones away.
Startups
A paucity of training images made the classifier unreliable, since it had seen only forty examples of the rarest defect.
Technology
The paucity of surviving prints means most of the director's early work is known from stills and a few reviews.
Movies
The paucity of written records from the century means historians lean heavily on coins and broken pottery.
History
A paucity of reliable price data from the region leaves the inflation estimate little better than a guess.
Economics
The team's paucity of outside shooters let defenders pack the paint and dare anyone to fire from the arc.
Basketball
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
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- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- MajorTests SAT 1000
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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