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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

In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The big fear, according to McElligott, is that a glut of investment-grade debt being issued by companies chasing the AI boom could help to crowd out demand for Treasurys.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Reports of milk going to waste are not uncommon during periods of a dairy glut.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Its electric doors whooshed open and a glut of passengers spilled out.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Oil prices have cratered during prior recessions and supply gluts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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

Imports surged from 7 billion euros in 2021 to 13 billion euros the following year, causing gluts and undercutting farmers, particularly in Poland.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

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

The oil market was clearly glutted before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

Sushi Kiyono has been there for 26 years, making it a rare small-business stalwart on Beverly Drive, which is glutted with chain restaurants like Jimmy John’s and Chipotle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

China's glutted market in polyethylene and polyesters after years of rapid petrochemical capacity expansion is prompting some of the shift.

From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2023

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

But sooner or later the glutting of the market becomes apparent, and then the crisis comes, because the goods cannot all be sold at a profit.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips