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
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
Emilia Petrarca, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
One interesting takeaway from 2025 was that oil markets mostly shrugged off sanctions and infrastructure attacks, proof that in a glut, policymakers have more flexibility to use energy markets to hurt their adversaries without causing pain for their constituents.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut the trend has flipped.
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Today, amid a glut of competition from labs in China and India, the price difference can be as high as ninety per cent.
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As providers warn of layoffs and a system nearing collapse, the contrast between the agency's austerity measures and the state's multi-billion dollar surplus remains a central point of contention for advocates and legislators alike.—
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But in the years since, Sacramento has failed to act to address the massive debt incurred during the pandemic, despite having a $100 billion surplus in recent years.—
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The analysts cited power oversupply.—
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An oversupply of milk and weaker consumer demand are causing dairy prices to fall.—
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The Islamic State emerged from the ferment of Syria’s civil war in the early 2010s, when Syria’s porous borders and surfeit of Islamist fighters offered fertile recruiting ground for all manner of jihadi groups.—
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The surfeit of deluxe editions should help the album reach the Billboard 200’s top 10, though continuing the group’s streak of top twos might be a bit out of reach.—
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Queuers would rather sit on the floor than skip the lounge for a chair at the gate, a desperation that might have something to do with Instagram envy, inequality, or an overabundance of premium-economy professionals with business-class expectations.—
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While some see overabundance and others see scarcity, a distinction that appears to bridge the gap is the level of talent under discussion.—
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The process could, in fact, help rectify that excess of grapes, causing supply to eventually even out with demand.—
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Unless the category could be brought under control, the excess threatened to self-propagate.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Greenland was incorporated into Denmark in 1953, as a tide of decolonization swept the globe following World War II.—
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More than a year after it was completed, the Smith Canal Gate was closed Monday because water levels rose to 8 feet, along with some other factors, including rising king tides and precipitation, according to Darren Suen, San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency executive director.—
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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