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
Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
Having responsibility for all the prep, but no control over what fighters will actually do when facing a glut of enemies, can feel punishing, unfair, and only sometimes motivating to try something different.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 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
Chicago Blackhawks see trade for Spencer Knight as a net positive, despite glut of goalies.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
Having responsibility for all the prep, but no control over what fighters will actually do when facing a glut of enemies, can feel punishing, unfair, and only sometimes motivating to try something different.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
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The surplus with the U.S. ballooned to 9 trillion yen ($63 billion).—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Managing surplus energy for local businesses and municipalities In most data centers, servers are air-cooled.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
17 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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In particular, smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol, skipping sleep, using recreational drugs (like marijuana), and downing a ton of sugar may all contribute to an excess of those free-wheeling free radicals and impair your body’s ability to defend against them.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
18 Apr. 2025
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Many retailers have likely rushed their orders to get ahead of these levies, which can lead to an excess of inventory and a need to liquidate for cash.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
16 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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The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen, from the world at large.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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This rising tide has been spurred in large part by billionaires, particularly Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and, to a lesser extent, Richard Branson.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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Arroyo memorializes ordinary buildings at risk of being swept up in the tide of gentrification in Miami through his paintings, while Simmons creates with concrete, fabric, acrylic, found objects and construction debris to form architectural sculptures and mixed media works.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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