bottleneck
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For each bottleneck we can imagine or anticipate, there are a dozen others we can’t.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
"Additionally, San Francisco Bay is a highly trafficked waterway, and the Golden Gate Strait serves as a bottleneck through which all traffic and whales must enter and exit."
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
The bottleneck of ships waiting to move through the waterway includes more than 425 oil and fuel tankers and nearly 15 vessels carrying liquefied natural gas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Torero warned the bottleneck in marine traffic since the conflict began on February 28 meant even if Hormuz were to reopen immediately "infrastructure damage is not fully reversible in the short term."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The effects of the bottleneck were described in 1982, when Allyn Stearman of the University of Central Florida became the first anthropologist to visit the Siriono since Holmberg.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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