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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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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

The actuator bottleneck Cardenas has warned against is being confronted industry-wide in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Part of China’s edge comes from having faced its own actuator bottleneck less than a decade ago, Jonas noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

A critical bottleneck in data centers is creating a massive runway for networking stocks like Celestica, according to Bernstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Each time I yanked the screw out, I got a spurt of cork, but the stub remained snug in the bottleneck.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The primary takeaway, according to Citrini, is that while AI-enabled research can dramatically compress the intellectual and design phase of drug development down to a few days, severe physical bottlenecks remain.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

It sits directly on one of the industry’s biggest bottlenecks: skilled labor.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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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