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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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The bottleneck of ships waiting to move through the waterway includes more than 425 oil and fuel tankers and nearly 15 vessels carrying liquefied natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

A bottleneck of more than 400 tankers persists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 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

Demand for server CPUs is outpacing supply, and shortages there are becoming a bottleneck to AI development, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said in a note earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

“He wanted to avoid a time-consuming bottleneck at all costs.”

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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