bottleneck
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It can refuse to solve a geopolitical bottleneck by breaking housing, small business, traditional manufacturing and capital spending.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 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
“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
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
As a result, ships built and manned in Spain itself were able to sail to the West Indies; there was nothing equivalent to the Greenland bottleneck that had throttled Norse colonization.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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