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
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
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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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