bottleneck
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"Additionally, San Francisco Bay is a highly trafficked waterway, and the Golden Gate Strait serves as a bottleneck through which all traffic and whales must enter and exit."
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
The most acute bottleneck may be large power transformers.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
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
They eased mechanical strain, making it practical to run banks of elevators continuously, packing in larger workforces and turning vertical circulation into a scalable system rather than a bottleneck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Slowing down for the bottleneck, he noticed that the men in uniform were waving over vehicles with large flashlights.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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