surplus
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The not-for-profit Community Table, in Mablethorpe, buys surplus stock from suppliers and products close to or past their best before date, which allows them to receive the produce at a fraction of the cost.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
ET, which is expected to show an increase in the inventory surplus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Mr. Maleki calculates that, without exports, surplus production would fill Iran’s oil storage capacity in about 13 days.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
That’s a small surplus of 400,000 barrels per day.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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