bottleneck
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The physical bottleneck clears only if power, grid, cooling and construction scale fast enough to keep the money being spent from sitting idle in a queue.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
A sharp decline in the use of custody for children over the past two decades, combined with limited capacity in mental health inpatient beds, has created a bottleneck for children in crisis.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Private equity faces a global bottleneck of nearly 33,000 unsold portfolio companies, straining fundraising and investor relations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Memory chips are in high demand, making them a bottleneck in the booming market for artificial-intelligence data centers.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
The stump of an elm guards a bottleneck in the path through the woods.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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