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[gluht] / glʌt /




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For people tinkering around the edges, with the goal of feeling stronger and more energetic, the glut of recommendations in here could feel empowering, perhaps like a sturdy reference text.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Micron and other memory-chip makers have announced plans to add capacity in the next few years to meet surging demand, after being initially reluctant to do so to avoid a supply glut and price collapse.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Reports of milk going to waste are not uncommon during periods of a dairy glut.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

It seemed like a steal at $2.5 million, but with the glut of rigs on the domestic market there weren’t any takers.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The semiconductor industry is notoriously cyclical, with shortages often followed by gluts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Oligopolies can and do fall into price wars or production gluts.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

Ultimately, this all helps promote true sustainability: long-lasting and durable products and batteries that aren’t just for luxury on one end, black-market speculation on the other, and market gluts on yet another.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2024

Imports surged from 7 billion euros in 2021 to 13 billion euros the following year, causing gluts and undercutting farmers, particularly in Poland.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The musical is rewardingly small-scaled, an oddity itself in the West End, glutted with splashy Broadway imports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

It's that ebullient zest for discovery that's kept Steves such a durable resource in a field now glutted with dubiously qualified influencers.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025

Sushi Kiyono has been there for 26 years, making it a rare small-business stalwart on Beverly Drive, which is glutted with chain restaurants like Jimmy John’s and Chipotle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

China's glutted market in polyethylene and polyesters after years of rapid petrochemical capacity expansion is prompting some of the shift.

From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2023

By midday, the grandstand and clubhouse were glutted, so Vanderbilt redirected fans by the thousands into the infield.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The sheer amount of influencers and podcasters is leading to an increasing glutting of the market.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Unfinished Ford trucks — 40,000 or so — are glutting Kentucky Speedway’s auxiliary parking lots in Sparta, a victim of the semiconductor shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, TheDrive.com reported.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

If anything, it does the opposite, glutting the viewer with despair.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2020

Batuman is wonderful on the joy of glutting oneself on books.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2017

The glare that it throws upon the play of the passions—jealousy in its anguish, revenge glutting itself, envy eating its heart, hopeless love—their nakedness is terrible.

From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells




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