bottleneck
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‘Whenever you get a supply bottleneck, people figure ways around it.’
From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026
The manufacturing process has created a bottleneck in supply, said dairy economist Leonard Polzin, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026
U.K. central bank says it may yet raise rates to tame inflation triggered by closure of the energy bottleneck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
A key aspect of the deal was the immediate re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, the key shipping bottleneck whose closure caused global energy prices to rise.
From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026
Gregor imagined the bottleneck a hundred bats would cause trying to get in the door downstairs.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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