bottleneck

Example Sentences

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They eased mechanical strain, making it practical to run banks of elevators continuously, packing in larger workforces and turning vertical circulation into a scalable system rather than a bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Demand for server CPUs is outpacing supply, and shortages there are becoming a bottleneck to AI development, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said in a note earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The bottleneck has nearly halted all petroleum shipments through the narrow waterway.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

The new Vera Rubin and Groq combined servers will have 500 times as much high bandwidth memory as the Hopper generation, helping solve the memory bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Fortunately, the rest of the brain is equipped with a workaround for the bottleneck.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker