glut
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But chicken processors have seen their profits erode over the past few months because of an industrywide glut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In the glut of new AI certifications, there are likely a couple of money-grab scams out there.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
More than a year after the Palisades fire, Malibu has a glut of luxury homes and empty lots stuck on the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Global over-production has created "a glut of steel on the international market", according to a UK government briefing,, external which has pushed prices down.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Demand for oil began to slacken significantly in 1982, and the result was a glut.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
The semiconductor industry is notoriously cyclical, with shortages often followed by gluts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Another prominent issue officials will likely be seeking to address at the plenum is industrial overcapacity, causing domestic gluts of cheap goods in certain sectors and exacerbating friction with trading partners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
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
Good harvest years can produce market gluts that make it hard to turn a profit.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
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
Still, in a glutted genre, “The Devil’s Mouth” offers a clever twist, a powerful setting and, through Sara, enough character transformation to give it a toehold in Joseph Campbell’s hero-journey territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
In fact, fundraising for private-equity, venture-capital and other nontraded funds has shriveled, and their portfolios are glutted with thousands of unsold companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 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
China's glutted market in polyethylene and polyesters after years of rapid petrochemical capacity expansion is prompting some of the shift.
From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2023
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
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
The glare that it throws upon the play of the passions—jealousy in its anguish, revenge glutting itself, envy eating its heart, hopeless love—their nakedness is terrible.
From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean
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