glut
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They are being crowded out in the debt markets by a glut of supply from companies with investment-grade ratings like Meta Platforms, Google parent Alphabet and Amazon.com.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A new genetic line of chickens is also fueling the 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
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
Sugar prices dropped 4.1% in February as global supply gluts extended a long-term decline, with the cost of sugar now over 27% lower compared to its February 2025 levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Another prominent issue officials will likely be seeking to address at the plenum is industrial overcapacity, causing domestic gluts of cheap goods in certain sectors and exacerbating friction with trading partners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
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
I am now glutted with information and paralyzed by parameters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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
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
For many years, Mr. Xi announced China’s intention to reduce its steel production, only for output to rise the next year as individual provinces increased production, glutting the market and hurting the industry nationally.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 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
Why, simply by glutting his canneries and taking from the streams the food supply which the natives have depended upon for generations.
From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood
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