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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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This bottleneck highlights the importance of agentic AI in the development process, both in standard review and release processes and in addressing the heightened security exposure from AI-generated code, the analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

For each bottleneck we can imagine or anticipate, there are a dozen others we can’t.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

"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

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

We pushed around the bottleneck of screaming kids forming at the door.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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