glut
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It was marked by a glut of unused fiber, a collapse in prices, frozen venture markets, massive bankruptcies, widespread job losses and a recession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The property website said the total was the highest of any month for 15 years and was driven, in part, by a glut of homes on the market and some sellers setting unrealistic expectations.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Investors demand higher yields when they are worried, or when a supply glut of bonds creates competition for capital.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The first shock in the early 2000s saw a glut of cheap, more low-tech exports from China hurt manufacturers not just in Europe but around the world.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The man was short, his body a glut of muscles, his hair thinning and sun-bleached.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Major alcohol companies have massive gluts on their balance sheets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
The hope of glutting the rulers is illusory.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
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