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
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
His late 2025 goal glut with Leeds also came from a stream of strikes down the centre of the penalty area.
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Beren Cross,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
25 June 2026
Basically, there’s a supply glut.
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Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
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Verb
The waterway, a critical shipping route, has essentially been closed for the duration of the conflict, causing a supply glut in the oil market that has sent prices skyrocketing.
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Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
His late 2025 goal glut with Leeds also came from a stream of strikes down the centre of the penalty area.
—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
Publishers are stacking the deck for the fall, when a glut of books are sent into the world steeled for holiday gifting.
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Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
25 June 2026
Basically, there’s a supply glut.
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Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
Verb
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All explore Sicilian heart and heritage through Canadian ingredients, evident in dishes like smart pinwheels of bucatini stuffed with sea urchin and rock crab and crisped to order.
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Her feed is stuffed with photos of her biking, skiing, climbing, working out, often in outfits from Skinfit, from which her followers can get ten per cent off.
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Everyone will devour these miniature buttery rolls stuffed with homemade shrimp salad.
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Near the Colorado-Utah border, several fires merged to devour more than 30,000 acres and counting in the Snyder Fire.
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When energy demand is low and renewable energy supply is in surplus, the Nova Spin uses its electric motor to accelerate the steel rotor inside the unit.
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Instead, the Sharks got two defensemen who are not elite and a forward who might just be a surplus to immediate needs.
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The turnstones gorge themselves on those eggs before continuing their journey north.
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But gorging on pollen alone wasn’t enough to lengthen a life.
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When inhaled, these microscopic particles can enter the lungs and bloodstream, potentially causing swelling and inflammation.
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When wildfire smoke is inhaled, volatile gases and tiny particles can pass through the lining of the lungs and enter the bloodstream.
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The oil market is coming full circle as millions of barrels that were stranded in the Persian Gulf head to global markets, creating a sudden oversupply that has pushed prices to their lowest level since the US-Iran war began.
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Before the war in the Middle East, a global oversupply weighed on demand for Russian crude, while Ukrainian military strikes have been successfully limiting output at Russian refineries for months.
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Rather than trying to gulp the slimy thing down, Wilkinson went into the kitchen and prepared an extravagant breakfast for himself, complete with Dr Pepper to wash it down.
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Others can’t stand the sound of gulping.
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That has never been the case for the first two seasons of House of the Dragon, with its surfeit of…everything.
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Elsewhere, the autopsy claims that Harris’ campaign didn’t sufficiently incorporate polling data into its messaging, as if her operation suffered from a surfeit of authenticity and spontaneity.
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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