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glut

[gluht] / glʌt /




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Bigger chicken breeds and flocks staying free of disease over the summer led to a glut in an industry that slaughters more than nine billion birds a year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Batista Filho takes over while the company is still losing money in its North American beef operations and is seeing pressure on chicken profits due to a poultry glut.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

In one sense, he was selling himself short: “Revolver” featured three Harrison compositions, a glut of new material that included “Taxman,” “Love You To” and “I Want to Tell You.”

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

In the glut of new AI certifications, there are likely a couple of money-grab scams out there.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Just looking at them reminds me of Christmas and the sticky feeling after eating too many, the surfeit and glut.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Stock prices follow the same pattern, appearing cheap during upswings before crashing when hardware gluts emerge.

From Barron's Feb. 23, 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

Good harvest years can produce market gluts that make it hard to turn a profit.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2023

Fearful of shortages, retailers including Gap and Nike ordered extra and did so earlier than usual, but a combination of poor forecasting and inflation-stung shoppers created massive gluts.

From Seattle Times Nov. 8, 2022

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

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

The glutting on essential groceries, eggs, milk, bottled water, so that empty grocery shelves confronted the more restrained among us.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2020

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

Now do not think that his folly lay chiefly in glutting his life with drab material things, with wives and concubines, with worldly power and glory.

From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White




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