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Jensen Huang, chief executive of tech company Nvidia, said the company had overproduced graphics cards, which have been in short supply in recent years.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2022

To avoid penalties written into its Army contracts for failing to make enough creamer, the company had overproduced, leaving its warehouse all but overflowing with valuable, perishable dried milk.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019

The story goes that in 1935 the Germans had overproduced chemists to such an extent that there were about a dozen Ph.D.s in organic chemistry on the Berlin police force.

From Time Magazine Archive