bottleneck

Example Sentences

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Bass said she had spent years addressing a years-old administrative bottleneck within the city’s personnel department, which runs the background process for police hires.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Demand for server CPUs is outpacing supply, and shortages there are becoming a bottleneck to AI development, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said in a note earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

A Hormuz bottleneck has taken its toll on global oil supply and snarled supply chains, while the targeting of energy infrastructure last week hampers energy production capacity.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

The new Vera Rubin and Groq combined servers will have 500 times as much high bandwidth memory as the Hopper generation, helping solve the memory bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Unfortunately, this had the effect of making the bridge into a bottleneck where the road narrowed back to two lanes.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson