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oversupply

[oh-ver-suh-plahy, oh-ver-suh-plahy] / ˈoʊ vər səˌplaɪ, ˌoʊ vər səˈplaɪ /


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There is currently much debate about whether we have a compute oversupply heading into 2027 and the following year, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Chinese automakers are dealing with weakening demand and oversupply issues after years of rapid expansion and intense competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The policy is expected to provide greater support to home sales in smaller cities, where housing prices are generally lower and oversupply is more pronounced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The draft reaffirms CBA’s view that Australia’s Queensland state faces a substantial oversupply, but southern states may remain balanced to undersupplied, Dhar says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Just on a p. 140 hunch, I'll always want a considerable oversupply.

From The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun

The Calgary-based company in 2009 spun off Cenovus Energy Inc. to focus on natural gas as prices for the resource began falling because of oversupplies generated by an onshore drilling boom in North America.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 10, 2011

However, farmers should stop worrying so much about price-deflating oversupplies of beef and other meats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some analysts were forecasting $50 oil toward the end of 2025 because of an oversupplied market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

They are strategically underweight cyclicals, such as AI-beneficiary technology hardware companies that they think will eventually face the risk of an oversupplied market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

It’s not like the U.S. market is oversupplied with charismatic midengine sports cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Oil markets tend to project forward, so an extended period of an oversupplied oil market, which assumes uninterrupted global oil flows, could push oil prices into the $60s,” said Thummel.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

Reckon them up and you would have a sufficiency of leading men to outfit plays for every theater in New York, oversupplied as that city is with them.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

Beyond oversupplying wholesale channels, management stumbled by attempting to pivot the traditionally male-centric line toward female consumers, an effort executives eventually walked back, according to Andreeva.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But memory providers have been reluctant to add more capacity out of fear of oversupplying a typically cyclical market.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026

But Steur’s lawyers said that the company began to intentionally oversaturate the market, oversupplying law enforcement.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022

A more intense construction blitz also risks oversupplying the market.

From Reuters ● May 1, 2022

If the goal of graduate programs is to create highly trained scientists, then these programs are oversupplying the workforce by the hundreds of thousands.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022


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