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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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But none of the options—negotiation, escalation, or just cutting its losses and getting out—is a path to a quick resolution of the energy bottleneck.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“There’s a real kind of bottleneck with a constraint on engineering capacity. There’s great ambition for what people would like to do,” Spence said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

For systems made of many entangled photons, that creates a serious bottleneck.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

This allows compute and memory to be fabricated onto the same chip, removing a critical bottleneck that slows things down in AI servers.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Gregor imagined the bottleneck a hundred bats would cause trying to get in the door downstairs.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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