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
More than a year after the Palisades fire, Malibu has a glut of luxury homes and empty lots stuck on the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Its electric doors whooshed open and a glut of passengers spilled out.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
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
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
At the same time, Mexican farmers soon learned how to push asparagus nearly year-round and into California during the state’s harvesting season, which glutted the market, Watte said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
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
The Union League and Pacific Union clubs next shone red with the fire that was glutting them.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum
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