glut
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The footwear maker took a sales hit as it cut back on discounts even amid an inventory glut, but has now returned to growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Responding to a glut of what it saw as low-quality, AI-generated content from aspiring thought leaders, LinkedIn recently introduced a “seems like AI slop” tag users can click for posts that they find questionable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
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
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
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The oil market was clearly glutted before the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
Over time, Instagram became glutted with sponsored content and buy links, but its shopping interface never derailed the overall experience of the app.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
I flung myself among the multitude in the moment of fermentation—so did others among Wilson's mates, who had, like me, been disappointed in the hope of glutting their eyes with Porteous's execution.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
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