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
Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
The Titans have a glut of tight ends who've performed about as well as one another all summer.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 8 Aug. 2025
Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
And while May is also a busy month for ESPN and TNT, which in late spring are glutted with live NBA and NHL playoff games, cable as a whole accounted for less than a quarter (24.1%) of all consumption last month.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
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Verb
An outbreak of pine beetles and 2024's Hurricane Helene helped contribute to a glut of pulpwood in the market, however, which drove down the value of that wood and made loggers even less interested in investing resources on a small lot like Blair's.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
The Titans have a glut of tight ends who've performed about as well as one another all summer.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut the trend has flipped.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
And while May is also a busy month for ESPN and TNT, which in late spring are glutted with live NBA and NHL playoff games, cable as a whole accounted for less than a quarter (24.1%) of all consumption last month.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
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He is credited with the key leadership role in creating Palm Springs’ Measure J, a 1% sales tax increase that helped to fund a $200 million downtown revitalization program and providing a surplus of $12 million per year to rebuild the city’s infrastructure.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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The bigger risk is OPEC+ deciding to reinstate supply cuts, given concerns about a surplus.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, many airlines are now rethinking their capacity plans as an oversupply of flights has weighed on fares and eaten into their profits this year.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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While oversupply does exist, demand is also dropping faster because of AI efficiencies.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Maybe the nuns could be transformed into spa therapists at a wellness retreat and the toxin explained away as a surfeit of matcha.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Lali is cheerful and spry, with a surfeit of energy—sprinting for no reason, flourishing her movements, meowing ten times in a row.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The boom has materialized thanks to an overabundance of solar panels available from neighboring China, which has been steadily ramping up its production of solar technology.—
Betsy Joles,
NPR,
21 Aug. 2025
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An overabundance of secondhand textiles paired with greater need (and higher prices) for sorting and processing have threatened the viability of textile recycling and circularity in Europe.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Aug. 2025
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The ruling landed as a symbolic rebuke of Musk’s sway over Tesla, and a warning about the excesses of Silicon Valley’s cult-of-founder ethos.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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An excess of dry fuels and vegetation is compounded by fire weather conditions that are becoming more common year-round.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 6,500-square-foot three-story contemporary is minimalist in decor but teeming with superfluities, including an elevator, a first-floor gym, a screening room, an infrared sauna and a master-bedroom walk-in closet bigger (and tidier) than my SoHo apartment.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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After which, see its superfluity yet again relative to market entities that have long and capably filled central bank functions of providing near-term liquidity to the solvent, along with regulation to ensure sound operation based on those loans.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Levine Cava noted that her 2026 budget proposal has funds for a new animal shelter in South Miami-Dade but that sterilization efforts need to increase significantly to turn the tide on the dog population.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Although the tide is turning (subscription required), there’s still a misconception that the trades are low-paying, dead-end jobs.—
Andrew Schaap,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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