bottleneck
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The market was right to identify optics as a bottleneck.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
But there was a bottleneck in terms of distributing that information to the designers, marketers and sales teams that the data was meant to help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Planning rules implemented in London after the fire, however, are so detailed that seven in 10 projects have since failed to get a green light, creating a bottleneck, according to the CPS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Chandana says today, access to space remains "a major bottleneck, with satellite operators often waiting for months or even years for a launch opportunity" and that their venture expects to change that.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Fortunately, the rest of the brain is equipped with a workaround for the bottleneck.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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In time, this can result in higher transport costs and supply bottlenecks, Wolters said.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Demand for the iPhone and Mac has outstripped forecasts, resulting in bottlenecks for the advanced chips that power these devices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
However, some research suggests that severe population bottlenecks may accelerate the development of structural variants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Access to skilled labor and other bottlenecks are already capping the pace of construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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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