How to Use supply and demand in a Sentence

supply and demand

noun
  • The job market in the U.S. is based on supply and demand.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The chill is coming from both sides: supply and demand.
    Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • That kind of mismatch in supply and demand is what can lead to outages.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But Bruce said his business comes down to supply and demand.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There has to be an audience, there has to be supply and demand.
    J. Clara Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Inflation has been caused by factors on both the supply and demand sides of the equation.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Global supply and demand for corn and soybeans are in balance, by and large.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This imbalance of supply and demand may well shore up coastal pricing for years to come.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • That mismatch in supply and demand leads to blackouts when people need air conditioning the most to cope with the heat.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • Used cars Used car prices were one of the first signs of inflation, driven by a mismatch between supply and demand.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Ticket prices are driven by supply and demand, so for now the Dodgers believe the demand for Ohtani supports those prices.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In time, rents will come into line as supply and demand come into balance.
    USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • At the same time, there is a better balance between supply and demand across the board, in goods, services and labor markets.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Either way, the upward revision comes down to supply and demand.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The human brain breaks the traditional confines of supply and demand.
    Eben Bayer, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Oil prices are set on exchanges based on short term expectations about supply and demand.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The imbalance between supply and demand is expected to get even worse next year.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But, even in normal times, rationing goes on, as an intrinsic feature of supply and demand.
    Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
  • As buyers return this spring, some experts predict there will be enough of a mismatch between supply and demand to send prices back up.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The dependency on commodities can lead to boom-and-bust cycles because their prices swing with changes in supply and demand.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The balance of supply and demand already swung from surplus to deficit in June, according to Standard Chartered Plc.
    Grant Smith, Fortune, 16 July 2023
  • Eventually these stores will, just supply and demand will remove them for us.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The economy and supply and demand are partly to blame, but there are other factors to consider.
    Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
  • Here's hoping a mismatch between supply and demand doesn't result in hefty markups at the dealerships.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There has been some progress toward a better alignment of supply and demand: About 2 million people have started looking for work in the past seven months, and most of them have found jobs.
    Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Sometimes there’s no more explanation than corporate greed or the laws of supply and demand.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Say goodbye to the fading, tired argument that says women’s sports are not as popular as men’s sports simply due to supply and demand.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Schmidt’s words show just how much the skills gap resembles the labor shortage: Both are persistent problems plaguing the workforce in which supply and demand don’t match up.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • Making room rentals the centerpiece of its summer release is smart business for Airbnb, which is always striving to find the sweet spot between supply and demand.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • At its core, adoption is an economic transaction — and the United States has a supply and demand issue that needs fixing.
    Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023

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