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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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Capacity rather than demand was now the big bottleneck, Metzler added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

In 2016, CEO Niraj Shah asked her to become the chief people officer, or CPO, to oversee talent acquisition globally—especially technical talent—since that was the company’s primary growth bottleneck, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The biggest bottleneck to the global trade of energy is no longer crude oil, according to the head of Kuwait’s state oil company.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

But we can use the physical bottleneck of energy to impose a clear and simple restraint on an industry that has otherwise proved elusive to regulate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

I could almost hear the sighs of relief from the bottleneck behind me as I turned left onto the deadend asphalt road.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

But he warned of stubborn bottlenecks in the AI and consumer electronics supply chains, with overall demand "still expected to outpace supply heading into next year".

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

The trio’s Texas startup, Mavria, is aiming to address some physical bottlenecks of the AI build-out with a standard design for modular data centers that can eventually be shipped by truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The company will need to communicate whether the softer sales growth is the result of infrastructure bottlenecks or less demand for its products.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

Chipmaker Intel was the hardest hit, with its shares sinking as much as 30 percent after it gave a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast for the fourth quarter, citing weakness in the PC market and manufacturing bottlenecks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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