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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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Your goal as an investor should be to identify narratives before the masses do, just like the investors who identified the memory-trade bottleneck before everyone else did.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

The market was right to identify optics as a bottleneck.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

But there was a bottleneck in terms of distributing that information to the designers, marketers and sales teams that the data was meant to help.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Such a limited founding population usually creates a severe genetic bottleneck.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Fortunately, the rest of the brain is equipped with a workaround for the bottleneck.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The key short-term counter measure he announced was to temporarily lift a ban on truck transports on Sundays and public holidays to help ease cargo bottlenecks.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

In time, this can result in higher transport costs and supply bottlenecks, Wolters said.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

However, some research suggests that severe population bottlenecks may accelerate the development of structural variants.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

“We suspect supply constraints around memory and other components will remain bottlenecks in the immediate term, and the timing around revenue recognition remains uncertain.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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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