glut
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In the glut of new AI certifications, there are likely a couple of money-grab scams out there.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Global over-production has created "a glut of steel on the international market", according to a UK government briefing,, external which has pushed prices down.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Two factors that will help rebuild stocks faster: falling prices and a surprising glut of oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
Its electric doors whooshed open and a glut of passengers spilled out.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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The semiconductor industry is notoriously cyclical, with shortages often followed by gluts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Stock prices follow the same pattern, appearing cheap during upswings before crashing when hardware gluts emerge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 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
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Today it is about 900,000 barrels a day, or less than 1%, in a glutted market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
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
At the same time, Mexican farmers soon learned how to push asparagus nearly year-round and into California during the state’s harvesting season, which glutted the market, Watte said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
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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
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
Batuman is wonderful on the joy of glutting oneself on books.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2017
In another season some prying gamekeeper would surprise him glutting his thirst for blood and gold, and an infuriated bench of magistrates would fine him.
From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar
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