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oversupply

[oh-ver-suh-plahy, oh-ver-suh-plahy] / ˈoʊ vər səˌplaɪ, ˌoʊ vər səˈplaɪ /


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Portland’s rental market stalled out in recent years as an oversupply of new housing collided with an economic slump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Traditionally memory shortages don’t last forever, and memory companies want to get the benefits while they can before the cycle swings to oversupply again,” Gold said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Still, he sees the worst is behind the Chinese solar sector, as government intervention and market forces may alleviate oversupply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

But in the Central Highlands there are concerns about the reliance on China, as well as the risks of oversupply as more farmers join the rush.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Mas is surprised at the lack of religious in the islands, while in Spain there is an oversupply and the livings are much poorer than in the Philippines.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

The Calgary-based company in 2009 spun off Cenovus Energy Inc. to focus on natural gas as prices for the resource began falling because of oversupplies generated by an onshore drilling boom in North America.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 10, 2011

However, farmers should stop worrying so much about price-deflating oversupplies of beef and other meats.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are strategically underweight cyclicals, such as AI-beneficiary technology hardware companies that they think will eventually face the risk of an oversupplied market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

It’s not like the U.S. market is oversupplied with charismatic midengine sports cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

In an oversupplied market, data-center customers are likely to “shift from making purchase decisions based on what’s available to prioritizing the best technology,” according to RBC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

“The market still looks oversold, not oversupplied, and the ‘well-supplied’ signal out of Asia is a drawdown, not necessarily an influx of Hormuz barrels,” said Kyle Bertamini, an analyst with Enverus Intelligence Research.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Some of the reservations are oversupplied with schools, while others, notably the Navajo, have almost none.

From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Charles Alexander Eastman

Beyond oversupplying wholesale channels, management stumbled by attempting to pivot the traditionally male-centric line toward female consumers, an effort executives eventually walked back, according to Andreeva.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But memory providers have been reluctant to add more capacity out of fear of oversupplying a typically cyclical market.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026

But Steur’s lawyers said that the company began to intentionally oversaturate the market, oversupplying law enforcement.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022

A more intense construction blitz also risks oversupplying the market.

From Reuters ● May 1, 2022

If the goal of graduate programs is to create highly trained scientists, then these programs are oversupplying the workforce by the hundreds of thousands.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022


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