oversupply
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verb (used with object)
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Chief Executive Sherman Miller said Cal-Maine faced a particularly challenging quarter, as oversupply drove egg prices to historically low inflation-adjusted levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It is not just base pricing, but volatility has collapsed as markets are in oversupply and batteries have successfully taken over the day-to-day work of gas plants,” Macquarie says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But the oversupply was a double whammy for those reeling from a poor harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
JPMorgan cut its 2027 oil price target to $63 from $75, while Citi sees potential 4 million barrels per day oversupply.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Regardless of the scarcity or oversupply of labor, personal efficiency will tend to enable the worker to receive larger wages than would otherwise be possible.
From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross
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
It’s not like the U.S. market is oversupplied with charismatic midengine sports cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
For one, the markets were oversupplied in 2025, which resulted in fat stockpiles that are still relatively plentiful, albeit declining.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
The market would get oversupplied with oil and profits would fall.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
He noted the company’s strategic decision not to own inventory, which he thinks will pay off in an oversupplied market.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026
Several large smelters had not found it profitable to install recovery plants, as the market might have been oversupplied and prices were low.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
That is a sign that Asics isn’t oversupplying the market with its lifestyle sneakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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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