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oversupply

[oh-ver-suh-plahy, oh-ver-suh-plahy] / ˈoʊ vər səˌplaɪ, ˌoʊ vər səˈplaɪ /


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The government-imposed cap, introduced in 2017 to tackle oversupply and reduce emissions during a period of rapid expansion in the industry, applies to installed smelting capacity rather than actual annual production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Chinese automakers are dealing with weakening demand and oversupply issues after years of rapid expansion and intense competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, the price of lab-grown diamonds — or diamonds made by emulating the earth’s natural heat and pressure conditions — has fallen, as technological advances and production expansion lead to oversupply.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Traditionally memory shortages don’t last forever, and memory companies want to get the benefits while they can before the cycle swings to oversupply again,” Gold said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

I was interested in Tusser's "Christmas husbandly fare," notwithstanding some suggestion of gluttony in it and of oversupply.

From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

The Calgary-based company in 2009 spun off Cenovus Energy Inc. to focus on natural gas as prices for the resource began falling because of oversupplies generated by an onshore drilling boom in North America.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 10, 2011

However, farmers should stop worrying so much about price-deflating oversupplies of beef and other meats.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rise in Middle Eastern exports, lower Chinese imports and non-OPEC+ oil supply growth should see oversupplied conditions in crude oil markets, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“The oil market was well oversupplied at the outset.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“The market still looks oversold, not oversupplied, and the ‘well-supplied’ signal out of Asia is a drawdown, not necessarily an influx of Hormuz barrels,” said Kyle Bertamini, an analyst with Enverus Intelligence Research.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

For one, the markets were oversupplied in 2025, which resulted in fat stockpiles that are still relatively plentiful, albeit declining.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Several large smelters had not found it profitable to install recovery plants, as the market might have been oversupplied and prices were low.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Beyond oversupplying wholesale channels, management stumbled by attempting to pivot the traditionally male-centric line toward female consumers, an effort executives eventually walked back, according to Andreeva.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But memory providers have been reluctant to add more capacity out of fear of oversupplying a typically cyclical market.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026

But Steur’s lawyers said that the company began to intentionally oversaturate the market, oversupplying law enforcement.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022

A more intense construction blitz also risks oversupplying the market.

From Reuters ● May 1, 2022

If the goal of graduate programs is to create highly trained scientists, then these programs are oversupplying the workforce by the hundreds of thousands.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022


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