bottleneck
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"Debinding has been the bottleneck in the process," said Minary, corresponding author of the article.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and the yearslong project to widen the freeway has only made it worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Rhine fell to just 9½ inches at the critical shipping bottleneck of Kaub, Germany, this summer, severely restricting inland freight transport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The market was right to identify optics as a bottleneck.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
This bottleneck compacts the waves and gives them even more force.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The key short-term counter measure he announced was to temporarily lift a ban on truck transports on Sundays and public holidays to help ease cargo bottlenecks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
In time, this can result in higher transport costs and supply bottlenecks, Wolters said.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Base also partners with regulated or municipal utilities and electric cooperatives, which use the batteries to relieve local grid bottlenecks, while customers get backup power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
However, some research suggests that severe population bottlenecks may accelerate the development of structural variants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The sabotage targets had been carefully selected to pinpoint areas that, when attacked, would create bottlenecks in the American war industry.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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