bottleneck
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The actuator bottleneck Cardenas has warned against is being confronted industry-wide in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
A growing bottleneck in data centers, which Bernstein analyst Daniel Zhu dubbed the “bandwidth wall,” is leading to billions of dollars’ worth of investment into high-speed networking and optical hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
That’s creating a bottleneck at some firms, stifling not just promotions but preventing younger ambitious partners from getting bigger cases and juicier work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Higher rates don’t produce more crude or ease a refining bottleneck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Gregor imagined the bottleneck a hundred bats would cause trying to get in the door downstairs.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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Junctions on the M4 in Newport could close, and a new bridge built across the Menai Strait, as part of Welsh government plans for two notorious transport bottlenecks.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
On the infrastructure side, data-center bottlenecks are creating massive pricing power for certain companies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Haddox’s new place didn’t require months of paperwork or administrative bottlenecks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
It did, however, note the inventory shortfalls and reveal "industrial base bottlenecks" for munitions resupply.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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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