bottleneck

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The most acute bottleneck may be large power transformers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Bass said she had spent years addressing a years-old administrative bottleneck within the city’s personnel department, which runs the background process for police hires.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

They eased mechanical strain, making it practical to run banks of elevators continuously, packing in larger workforces and turning vertical circulation into a scalable system rather than a bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

But with about a third of the world’s tradable fertilizer stock caught in the Strait of Hormuz bottleneck, this year’s planting season will be a tricky one.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

So catastrophic was the decline that the Siriono passed through a genetic bottleneck.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann