How to Use oversupply in a Sentence

oversupply

noun

• Wings will have the lowest wholesale prices of the decade because of the oversupply.
  — Cole Sikes, al, 6 Feb. 2023
• But in the meantime, the state’s oversupply is considered the nation’s worst.
  — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
• That’s led to a crush at lumber mills across the state, which are fielding an oversupply of logs salvaged from fire-scarred forests.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
• Downtown has been plagued by an oversupply of office space for decades.
  — Dallas News, 8 July 2022
• And less demand means more office oversupply, which could lead to major price drops that could leave lenders and landlords in the lurch.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• That will leave cities with an oversupply of empty office space.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
• Overbuilding in the 2000s meant there was an oversupply of housing.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 28 Aug. 2022
• That’s apart from the fact that in many regions, especially the Sunbelt, there is an oversupply of these buildings.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• Restrained by such research findings (and, to be sure, by less than an oversupply of money), Jaguar's changes to the XJ are also restrained.
  — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 8 July 2023
• Tree removal is a key first step, but it may be held up by an oversupply of salvage lumber from wildfire areas that has backed up the state’s saw mills.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2022
• That could result in the supply growth rate slowing, which means that this oversupply could be temporary.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• But since then, many new ships have been ordered and the situation has recently been one of oversupply.
  — Jenni Reid, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• But in May, the retailer said it was stuck with an oversupply of certain goods and the company’s stock price plummeted nearly 25% in one day.
  — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• With the oversupply that is happening, many SPACs will not be able to deploy their capital and will have to return it (minus costs) to investors.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The oversupply has been terrific for cannabis consumers.
  — Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Oil traders are betting the vast oversupply of barrels that turned prices negative on April 20 will quickly vanish.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 June 2020
• Some counties in West Virginia and Kentucky had almost twice that level of oversupply.
  — Dick Durbin, STAT, 7 Aug. 2021
• The current oversupply of marijuana itself has been pushing prices down for about a year.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• So intense was the frenzy that even the luxury-rental glut — the oversupply of apartment rentals that clogged the market for years before the pandemic — is finally gone.
  — Curbed, 24 Jan. 2022
• That oversupply, coupled with development pressures, has led more golf courses to close than to open since 2006.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The oversupply of office space could place further financial strains on banks, as landlords are hurting due to the lack of tenants and a drop in occupancy rates.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• This has created an oversupply of tinder that should have been cleared long ago by healthier fire cycles.
  — Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
• The oversupply marks a sharp turnaround from a global shortage during two years of supercharged demand.
  — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• The quarter before that, the company missed its own projections by $1.4 billion due to an oversupply of GPUs and a crypto-mining crash that reduced sales.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Retail growth, a key component in reducing oversupply issues, has been stagnant over the past year.
  — Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024
• Conversely, if there is an oversupply of delta 8 in the market, prices may decrease as companies compete for customers.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• In Oregon, where sales began in 2015, large growers have achieved some economy of scale that could give them a leg up in a broader market — but in the meantime, the state’s oversupply is considered the nation’s worst.
  — Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 27 Oct. 2023
• The turmoil extends far beyond Kentucky, where a surge in production last year led to an oversupply that cut prices and now is forcing many U.S. hemp farmers to back away this season or cut crop plans for 2020.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2020
• Demand drops, creating an oversupply of workers on the platform.
  — WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024