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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

“That just shows you that we’re short of capital. The actual bottleneck is there.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 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

Bombarding the waste uranium with neutrons would allow the United States to “break the bottleneck of this raw material problem,” he promised.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Data-center construction will, at the very least, become more expensive and complicated so the bottlenecks trade in power and chips has more question marks placed beside it, said the research firm’s report.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

“We cannot afford to let bottlenecks hold back Canadian trade,” Canadian Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon said Friday at a press conference in suburban Vancouver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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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