glut
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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
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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
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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
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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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