glut
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German automakers, facing a glut of Chinese imports, have revealed they may cut around 100,000 jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
When the shortage turned to a glut a few years later, the program was scrapped and customers got exemptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
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
Shipping rates that spiked during disruptions caused by the pandemic have plummeted — some are now calling it a “freight recession” — as inventory gluts across the U.S. lowered demand.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 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
Still, in a glutted genre, “The Devil’s Mouth” offers a clever twist, a powerful setting and, through Sara, enough character transformation to give it a toehold in Joseph Campbell’s hero-journey territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Today it is about 900,000 barrels a day, or less than 1%, in a glutted market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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
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
You go on boldly; but have a care of glutting the public, who have by this time had enough of Childe Harold.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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