bottleneck
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Higher rates don’t produce more crude or ease a refining bottleneck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
They see a bottleneck and ask whether it is short term or long term.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Radiotherapy is another bottleneck crying out for staff and kit.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Comment from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk aren’t only about disruption, they are about a bottleneck to AI growth.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Each time I yanked the screw out, I got a spurt of cork, but the stub remained snug in the bottleneck.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
It sits directly on one of the industry’s biggest bottlenecks: skilled labor.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Rising demand, workforce shortages and diagnostic bottlenecks have all played a part.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Companies are dealing not only with a lack of demand but also with shipping bottlenecks that have delayed deliveries of everything from heavy machinery to kegs of imported beer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Instead of evolving, there are all these wild populations that are dying off, declining or going through genetic bottlenecks," Bishop said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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