bottleneck
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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
Some early robotic tests either failed or proved too expensive, creating a bottleneck as retailers scramble to speed up home delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The AI bottleneck will take time and a lot of training to overcome.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
But due to a lack of U.S. manufacturing capacity and capability, actuation systems are also a bottleneck, Kelkar said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
With nowhere to go and no time to stop herself, Fair Knightess charged straight into the bottleneck.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
A venture-capital firm specializing in deep tech has raised more than $50 million to invest in startups that can help solve physical bottlenecks in artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Junctions on the M4 in Newport could close, and a new bridge built across the Menai Strait, as part of Welsh government plans for two notorious transport bottlenecks.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
But bottlenecks have slowed delivery of critical weapons.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
That is the highest since mid-2022, when prices soared amid the supply-chain disruptions resulting from the Covid pandemic that led to insufficient inventory, labor shortages and bottlenecks at ports and railroads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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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