bottleneck
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Almost 15 years ago, Canada agreed to fully pay for the bridge's construction to bypass US political resistance and get the project, seen as necessary infrastructure to fix a trade bottleneck, moving.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Planning rules implemented in London after the fire, however, are so detailed that seven in 10 projects have since failed to get a green light, creating a bottleneck, according to the CPS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
As detectors become larger, manufacturing, assembling, and reading out millions of individual components can become a major technological and financial bottleneck.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Investors are still desperate for anything bolted to AI infrastructure, especially if it sits close to the high-bandwidth memory bottleneck."
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
However, some research suggests that severe population bottlenecks may accelerate the development of structural variants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
“We suspect supply constraints around memory and other components will remain bottlenecks in the immediate term, and the timing around revenue recognition remains uncertain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Since Europe is a net energy importer, delivery bottlenecks could be inflationary, resulting in a risk of rising bond yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
However, according to Anni Sen, managing partner of BluBird Capital, the capex numbers could “surprise to the upside” as bottlenecks in memory push up component costs for data-center hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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