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Mike Tanier, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
In a story glutted with broad caricatures, Hunt and Liddy are maybe the broadest and perhaps the least inherently sympathetic.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
In that case, our oceans could be glutted with rip-roaring cybernetic frogs, Jurassic-Park style.
—Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
Luxury can swiftly glut.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
Now add on to that glut another category of product that stores have to deal with: returns.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 26 June 2022
The internet is glutted with second-by-second countdown clocks and the mania is even spurring a hike in hiring by crypto firms worldwide.
—Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2020
Now, thanks largely to those export terminals, the global market is glutted.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
That’s even as the market is already glutted, with prices down about 30% in 12 months.
—Fortune, 12 Nov. 2019
Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
The fossil footprints of hungry birds likely document one of Earth’s earliest avian migrations, with the feathery fliers timing their visit to what was then part of the southern pole to enjoy a warm-season glut of squishy invertebrate food.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
Inventory Glut The overall chip industry is still contending with a sales slump, worsened by a glut of inventory.
—Gillian Tan, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
The financial district’s shift offers a road map for, and glimmer of hope about, what could happen in neighborhoods from Lower to Midtown Manhattan that are saddled with a glut of empty offices as companies continue to slash space in the pandemic’s wake.
—Matthew Haag, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
This year, a glut of solar equipment in the market and project delays have roiled the entire solar sector.
—WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
There are a variety of factors behind the glut, but at its core there’s overproduction and underconsumption in France.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
For many of us, that’s still completely or partially at home, leaving a major glut of office space where millions of Americans used to spend 40-plus hours per week.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
The court’s decision in NCAA v. Murphy opened the door for the glut of sports-betting ads and promotions that now entangle all of professional sports.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Verb (1) and Noun
Middle English glouten, probably from Anglo-French glutir to swallow, from Latin gluttire — more at glutton
Verb (2)
probably from obsolete glut, noun, swallow
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2
Noun
circa 1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
1600, in the meaning defined above
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