Both Uses
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Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
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- Juli'd actually been making herself pretty scarce because it was around the time they'd taken the sycamore tree down, but suddenly one morning she was back on our doorstep, delivering eggs.†
p. 60.5 *scarce = in short supply OR barely or hardly (by a small margin)
- She was, I don't know, scarce.†
p. 123.7
Definitions:
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(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and typically in classic literature), scarce can be short for scarcely or hardly or barely or by a small margin -- such as in "She was scarce ten years old," or "I scarce know why."