bottleneck

Example Sentences

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The physical bottleneck clears only if power, grid, cooling and construction scale fast enough to keep the money being spent from sitting idle in a queue.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

A sharp decline in the use of custody for children over the past two decades, combined with limited capacity in mental health inpatient beds, has created a bottleneck for children in crisis.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

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

Glinting investment opportunities abound, private-equity firms say—but the industry also faces an exit bottleneck of over $3 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The effects of the bottleneck were described in 1982, when Allyn Stearman of the University of Central Florida became the first anthropologist to visit the Siriono since Holmberg.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann