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congestion

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“Cars appeared to be racing or traveling at really high speeds on the Beltway, where normally the congestion would prevent folks from going that fast,” he said.

At the moments of highest demand, congestion on the grid means that electricity needs to be made near where it’s most needed—in cities.

This throttling was particularly severe because it was enforced 24 hours a day regardless of whether there was any network congestion, and downloads were throttled to speeds as low as 128kbps.

Ants have been learning how to deal with congestion for millions of years.

It’s difficult to ensure that every single device you’re connecting is running at optimum speed, so there will typically be unavoidable lags or congestion.

She describes a period of relentless civic construction—vast new roads and transit systems, and new congestion to go with them.

The result was a perfect storm of commuter congestion where “normal Caracas chaos became absolute mayhem.”

The state has argued that this law is necessary to prevent obstruction and congestion going into the abortion clinics.

London became a virtual ghost town after months of warnings about extreme congestion.

Couldn't high speed rail displace more polluting forms of transportation and relieve road congestion?

How small are the masses of pauperism which we bring together, compared with the congestion of one vast House.

He was threatened with congestion of the brain, and seemed somewhat aggrieved when I told him he had been trying to do too much.

So the modest household lived on, till my father was carried off by congestion of the lungs on the 4th of May 1823.

Wherever there has been much cerebral disturbance, traces of congestion are usually discernible.

It is all income without an outlet, and that, we know, always produces congestion and disease.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to congestion, such as: bottleneck, overpopulation, traffic jam, crowding, excess, and jam.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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