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[gluht] / glʌt /




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The result of the federal tax credit has been a glut of apartments costing renters on the order of about $1,400 a month for a one-bedroom.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

The market is “facing the risk of a temporary glut as trapped oil finally re-enters a system that has already spent months learning how to function without it,” they noted.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

This year, the strain put on capital markets by the glut of tech issuance raises questions around investors’ capacity to absorb further capital raises expected in the coming months.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

They were already grappling with poor harvests because of unfavourable weather when the glut hit.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

The man was short, his body a glut of muscles, his hair thinning and sun-bleached.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stock prices follow the same pattern, appearing cheap during upswings before crashing when hardware gluts emerge.

From Barron's Feb. 23, 2026

Oil prices have cratered during prior recessions and supply gluts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 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

By early 2020, the oil market was glutted after a Saudi-Russian battle for market share.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 2026

I am now glutted with information and paralyzed by parameters.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

It's that ebullient zest for discovery that's kept Steves such a durable resource in a field now glutted with dubiously qualified influencers.

From Salon Feb. 28, 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

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

The glutting on essential groceries, eggs, milk, bottled water, so that empty grocery shelves confronted the more restrained among us.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2020

If anything, it does the opposite, glutting the viewer with despair.

From The Guardian Mar. 21, 2020

Sardi venales: on account of the glutting of the market with Sardinian slaves, made through the victory of Tib.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)




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