bottlenecks
- plural of bottleneck.
Example Sentences
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Supply-chain bottlenecks forced companies to rethink their dependence on overseas suppliers in favor of more domestic sourcing and inventory stocking that required factories and warehouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, which are closest to the physical bottlenecks of the AI buildout, have been among the sectors benefitting most from the spending boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Samsung Electronics is reportedly proposing to raise the average selling price of its dynamic random access memory chips by 20%, another sign of the bottlenecks that are gripping the industry.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
While they account for a smaller share of the total bill of materials needed for AI, they can still cause critical bottlenecks, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
