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
Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Jimmy Butler of the Golden State Warriors (glut) and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics (wrist) have also suffered injuries during the playoffs.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 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 emergence of the similarly versatile Lewis Miley, who profited from Anderson’s absence last season with a glut of minutes, softened the blow of his departure.
—Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Jimmy Butler of the Golden State Warriors (glut) and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics (wrist) have also suffered injuries during the playoffs.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
Noun
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And the $529 million shortfall already assumes $300 million in TIF surplus.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board was informed that the surplus of federal funds that had been used to offer free lunch throughout the district for the past school year was finally depleted.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Plus years of excessive demand have sparked an oversupply of agave — the main ingredient in tequila — causing prices to sharply decline as inventory goes unsold, damaging profits for farmers.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN Money,
18 May 2025
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The Texas housing market is undergoing a substantial correction, driven by a combination of oversupply, declining demand and persistent affordability issues.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 May 2025
Noun
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The rooms are immaculate but lifeless, albeit with a surfeit of gold leaf.—
Peter Rutland,
The Conversation,
9 May 2025
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However, the speculative bubble, which saw a surfeit of product land on the market, needs to be addressed.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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What’s happening within those impeccable compositions, however, feels like its suffering from an overabundance of business and undernourished storytelling.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
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Mania, the one side of its polarity, wants novelty, power, movement, excess.—
Cameron Esposito,
Glamour,
12 May 2025
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Amid low hope for progress, one positive outcome for financial markets in talks would be an agreement to bring down tariffs from an excess of 100 percent to levels allowing products to flow each way, Reuters reported.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 May 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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His replacement, Anthony Banda, failed to stem a turning tide.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2025
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But the tide is changing, and according to Sturdivant-Drew, the hue is right on trend with the natural aesthetics that have been popular recently.—
Jessica Fields,
Essence,
8 May 2025
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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