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[gluht] / glʌt /




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The U.S. might end up with a “slowly growing glut of college grads,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

The first shock in the early 2000s saw a glut of cheap, more low-tech exports from China hurt manufacturers not just in Europe but around the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

A spate of new projects in the U.S. and around the globe had fueled fears of an impending supply glut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

For the new series, a glut of huge names and personalities from across the worlds of film, TV, music, modelling and broadcasting have also been selected.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

Sugar prices dropped 4.1% in February as global supply gluts extended a long-term decline, with the cost of sugar now over 27% lower compared to its February 2025 levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Stock prices follow the same pattern, appearing cheap during upswings before crashing when hardware gluts emerge.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

Today it is about 900,000 barrels a day, or less than 1%, in a glutted market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025

At the same time, Mexican farmers soon learned how to push asparagus nearly year-round and into California during the state’s harvesting season, which glutted the market, Watte said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

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 William Dean Howells


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