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How to pronounce bottleneck in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chokepoint, constriction
Type of narrowing
Type Words
Type of contract, narrow


Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks.
Type Words
Type of embarrass, hinder, stymy, block, blockade, obstruct, stymie


His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system.
Type Words
Type of portion, part

Examples of bottleneck

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This overpass is extremely outdated and narrow, acting as a gigantic bottleneck.
From the ocregister.com
There is also a bottleneck of highly trained personnel to comb through evidence.
From the cnn.com
The worst bottleneck is a rickety, mid-1970s Bailey bridge across a small river.
From the economist.com
Identification and validation of Ifit1 as an important innate immune bottleneck.
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Once a major traffic bottleneck, it still suffers from congestion at peak times.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Beijing is particularly prone to traffic jams because it is a bottleneck point.
From the online.wsj.com
The Sunrise Boulevard bridge over the American River is a notorious bottleneck.
From the sacbee.com
Discoveries have been tailing off for years and refining is one big bottleneck.
From the economist.com
This corridor is the worst traffic bottleneck in the Pan American Freeway system.
From the freep.com
More examples
  • Constriction: a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
  • Slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"
  • The narrow part of a bottle near the top
  • Become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"
  • A bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of components or resources. The term bottleneck is taken from the 'assets are water' metaphor. ...
  • The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur, known also as Abruzzi Spur - the most used route to the top of K2, the second-highest mountain of the world in the Karakoram on the Pakistan/China border.
  • (Bottlenecking) When a large amount of the work required on an audit is shifted closer toward the deadline instead of completed in a steady fashion throughout the time allotted toward the audit.
  • (Bottlenecks (FFLP Lesson plan 6)) Parts of the song that prove difficult and slow the student down.
  • (Bottlenecks) 70% of the European gene pool can be traced to 7 males who lived as hunter-gatherers before the end of the ice ages. 80% of the mitochondial DNA can be traced to 3 - 5 women living during the ice ages. [22]