as in to stuff
to fill with food to capacity
prefers not to watch those nature programs where all they show are predators glutting themselves on the kill
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Recent Examples of glut
Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Solar power and electrical charging Solar power glut boosts California electric bills.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Now out the other side of London’s glut of shows and starry events, Chung slipped into a wardrobe staple favorite, and held a little get together with some pals and industry peers at a neighborhood favorite.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
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Solar power and electrical charging Solar power glut boosts California electric bills.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Solar power and electrical charging Solar power glut boosts California electric bills.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
The glut of glizzies is never-ending because, contrary to L.A.’s reputation as a green-juice-guzzling collective of health fanatics, this is a hot dog city.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Now out the other side of London’s glut of shows and starry events, Chung slipped into a wardrobe staple favorite, and held a little get together with some pals and industry peers at a neighborhood favorite.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
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On Robust Earnings Reports—As Microsoft Reclaims Crown As World’s Largest Company Having no plan for what to do with a surplus of chicken feet, yes chicken feet, is a sad state of affairs after turning your back on more than 1.4 billion Chinese consumers.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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While the city currently has an approximate $3.6 million surplus in the latest budget, city officials expressed reluctance to drop the revenue stream.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
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McLagan traces this shift in reputation to the rise of slaughterhouses in England, which led to a greater availability of meat as well as an oversupply of perishable, hard-to-ship offal.—
Valerie Trapp,
The Atlantic,
17 Apr. 2025
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Indeed, veterans of the whisky world understand that turbulence and challenging periods are part of the whisky cycle, most notably seen during the whisky loch of the 1980s when distilleries had to close due to oversupply and falling demand.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Under Lightfoot, the district benefited from a surfeit of federal stimulus dollars that went to hiring.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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There are plenty of period pieces on TV, too, with a surfeit of fun costumes and grand settings and now-foreign social rules.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
18 June 2024
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Despite having an overabundance of Harlequin romances, her Zion stock was full of genres for everyone’s reading tastes.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Americans have an overabundance of omega-6s in their bodies due to their use in ultraprocessed foods and eating at fast food establishments.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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There are two ways to go with your shades: larger-than-life, rock star excess—in which case L.A.-based Jacques Marie Mage are your choice, my favourites are the Admiral, far right ($1,075)—or subtle, sleek frames which perform their function quietly—for these, N.Y.C.’s Moscot are the answer.—
Nick Hendry,
Robb Report,
30 Apr. 2025
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His platform of law and order, free markets, tighter control of immigration, and pushing back on the left’s social excesses was the exact medicine that Canada needed.—
The Editors,
National Review,
29 Apr. 2025
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The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen ...—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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Not business as usual The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Dec. 2024
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On April 28, Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won a comeback election on a tide of anti-Trump sentiment.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Amid the crushing weight of history and with the sound of a large bandwagon frantically emptying across the city, Craig Berube is left to press on against the tide.—
Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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