glut
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The first shock in the early 2000s saw a glut of cheap, more low-tech exports from China hurt manufacturers not just in Europe but around the world.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
For the new series, a glut of huge names and personalities from across the worlds of film, TV, music, modelling and broadcasting have also been selected.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
For people tinkering around the edges, with the goal of feeling stronger and more energetic, the glut of recommendations in here could feel empowering, perhaps like a sturdy reference text.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Micron and other memory-chip makers have announced plans to add capacity in the next few years to meet surging demand, after being initially reluctant to do so to avoid a supply glut and price collapse.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Just looking at them reminds me of Christmas and the sticky feeling after eating too many, the surfeit and glut.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Sugar prices dropped 4.1% in February as global supply gluts extended a long-term decline, with the cost of sugar now over 27% lower compared to its February 2025 levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Oligopolies can and do fall into price wars or production gluts.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Ultimately, this all helps promote true sustainability: long-lasting and durable products and batteries that aren’t just for luxury on one end, black-market speculation on the other, and market gluts on yet another.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2024
Good harvest years can produce market gluts that make it hard to turn a profit.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The oil market was clearly glutted before the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
I am now glutted with information and paralyzed by parameters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
Over time, Instagram became glutted with sponsored content and buy links, but its shopping interface never derailed the overall experience of the app.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
By midday, the grandstand and clubhouse were glutted, so Vanderbilt redirected fans by the thousands into the infield.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The sheer amount of influencers and podcasters is leading to an increasing glutting of the market.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Unfinished Ford trucks — 40,000 or so — are glutting Kentucky Speedway’s auxiliary parking lots in Sparta, a victim of the semiconductor shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, TheDrive.com reported.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
For many years, Mr. Xi announced China’s intention to reduce its steel production, only for output to rise the next year as individual provinces increased production, glutting the market and hurting the industry nationally.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
If anything, it does the opposite, glutting the viewer with despair.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2020
In the meantime," Pennington continued, "logs will be glutting our landings.
From The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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