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glut

[gluht] / glʌt /




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In the glut of new AI certifications, there are likely a couple of money-grab scams out there.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 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

Two factors that will help rebuild stocks faster: falling prices and a surprising glut of oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

The result of the federal tax credit has been a glut of apartments costing renters on the order of about $1,400 a month for a one-bedroom.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

Its electric doors whooshed open and a glut of passengers spilled out.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

The semiconductor industry is notoriously cyclical, with shortages often followed by gluts.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 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

Imports surged from 7 billion euros in 2021 to 13 billion euros the following year, causing gluts and undercutting farmers, particularly in Poland.

From Seattle Times Apr. 18, 2024

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

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

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

In another season some prying gamekeeper would surprise him glutting his thirst for blood and gold, and an infuriated bench of magistrates would fine him.

From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar




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