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
Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Now out the other side of London’s glut of shows and starry events, Chung slipped into a wardrobe staple favorite, and held a little get together with some pals and industry peers at a neighborhood favorite.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 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
The glut of glizzies is never-ending because, contrary to L.A.’s reputation as a green-juice-guzzling collective of health fanatics, this is a hot dog city.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Now out the other side of London’s glut of shows and starry events, Chung slipped into a wardrobe staple favorite, and held a little get together with some pals and industry peers at a neighborhood favorite.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
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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
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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
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The idea behind it is to curb the oversupply of rice, in order to indirectly, but nevertheless artificially, ensure rice prices remain relatively high.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
8 May 2025
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Prices are dropping all across the state, and will likely continue to drop for years due to an oversupply of housing combined with record lack of affordability.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025
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However, the speculative bubble, which saw a surfeit of product land on the market, needs to be addressed.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2025
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The surfeit of interested workers has not alleviated the labor shortage.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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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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What’s happening within those impeccable compositions, however, feels like its suffering from an overabundance of business and undernourished storytelling.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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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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On April 28, Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won a comeback election on a tide of anti-Trump sentiment.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Amid the crushing weight of history and with the sound of a large bandwagon frantically emptying across the city, Craig Berube is left to press on against the tide.—
Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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