bottleneck
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"Debinding has been the bottleneck in the process," said Minary, corresponding author of the article.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and the yearslong project to widen the freeway has only made it worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Inference speeds have become a key bottleneck for agentic AI workflows, which consume large amounts of tokens, or AI data units.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Unlike AI accelerators, China’s optical and networking stack doesn’t face a tech bottleneck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The stump of an elm guards a bottleneck in the path through the woods.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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"We'll be facing gridlock and bottlenecks all over again," the business owner, in his sixties, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
In time, this can result in higher transport costs and supply bottlenecks, Wolters said.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
However, some research suggests that severe population bottlenecks may accelerate the development of structural variants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
In the meantime, while waiting for these trends to develop and intensify, Gromen is bullish on U.S. electrical infrastructure equities, owing to the bottlenecks around power generation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The sabotage targets had been carefully selected to pinpoint areas that, when attacked, would create bottlenecks in the American war industry.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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