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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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Ingram said Kharg Island "shouldn't be a particular bottleneck," for Iran.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

“The training commitment for 3 million Australians is smart because the biggest bottleneck in AI adoption right now isn’t the tech, it’s the people who need to know how to use it,” said Gilbert.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Additionally, Shi sees agentic AI EDA tools easing the labor bottleneck for customer-owned tooling, or the process of a customer, rather than the chip supplier or manufacturer, owning the chip-manufacturing tools and equipment.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

How quickly this eases the bottleneck of vessels trapped inside the Gulf remains to be seen.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

With nowhere to go and no time to stop herself, Fair Knightess charged straight into the bottleneck.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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