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Recent Examples of oversupply Is the Tequila boom over, and is the industry suffering from a massive oversupply of products? Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 Decades after the Flexner Report, in 1980, policymakers anticipated a physician oversupply based on medical school enrollment projections and government investments in the medical workforce. Nicole McCann, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025 According to the National Grid ESO, curtailment of wind power alone cost British consumers over £800 million in 2023, as renewable generators were paid to shut down during periods of oversupply, with the tab being picked up by households. Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 According to Marks, markets are running with the idea of an oversupply of data centeres but ignored Cowen’s report that Google and Meta are stepping in to carry some of the load. Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for oversupply
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Oversupply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversupply. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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