bottleneck
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The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and the yearslong project to widen the freeway has only made it worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Read: Industrials could be the next big bottleneck trade.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The delay is partly because of a bottleneck at De Havilland Canada, the manufacturer of the plane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Such a limited founding population usually creates a severe genetic bottleneck.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
We pushed around the bottleneck of screaming kids forming at the door.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
"We'll be facing gridlock and bottlenecks all over again," the business owner, in his sixties, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Over the next 18 months, memory went from an afterthought to one of the AI boom’s biggest bottlenecks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
In time, this can result in higher transport costs and supply bottlenecks, Wolters said.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Gordie Howe bridge is expected to ease bottlenecks because it has more lanes and highway access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The sabotage targets had been carefully selected to pinpoint areas that, when attacked, would create bottlenecks in the American war industry.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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