oversupply
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verb (used with object)
noun
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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
“I think there was a level of disbelief that there would be a significant pickup because it felt like oversupply had been there forever,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
The long-term threat of oversupply looms over the industry, and some shipping lines continue to order massive new vessels, which could hurt future profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But the oversupply was a double whammy for those reeling from a poor harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Should not the oversupply of teachers be reduced by directing many of our graduates into other pursuits than teaching?
From The Women of Tomorrow by Hard, William
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
“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
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
While global oil markets remain broadly oversupplied, near-term prices look set to take direction from geopolitical signals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
That came as crude oil prices declined to the lowest point in more than four years, amid ongoing worries about an oversupplied global market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
The need for a medium of exchange is oversupplied.
From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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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