bottleneck
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The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and the yearslong project to widen the freeway has only made it worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Inference speeds have become a key bottleneck for agentic AI workflows, which consume large amounts of tokens, or AI data units.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The delay is partly because of a bottleneck at De Havilland Canada, the manufacturer of the plane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Such a limited founding population usually creates a severe genetic bottleneck.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
We pushed around the bottleneck of screaming kids forming at the door.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
"We'll be facing gridlock and bottlenecks all over again," the business owner, in his sixties, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
In time, this can result in higher transport costs and supply bottlenecks, Wolters said.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Demand for the iPhone and Mac has outstripped forecasts, resulting in bottlenecks for the advanced chips that power these devices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
However, some research suggests that severe population bottlenecks may accelerate the development of structural variants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 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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