How to Use oversupply in a Sentence

oversupply

1 of 2 noun
  • Downtown has been plagued by an oversupply of office space for decades.
    — Dallas News, 8 July 2022
  • That will leave cities with an oversupply of empty office space.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
  • That’s an oversupply at every phase.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The sell off comes as oil prices hit a 4-month low due to concerns about oversupply in the market.
    — Adrian Van Hauwermeiren, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Wings will have the lowest wholesale prices of the decade because of the oversupply.
    — Cole Sikes, al, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The new fund launches against a backdrop of oversupply in the market.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • That is due to a recent oversupply that has kept rent growth more depressed, despite a strong job market.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 10 June 2026
  • An oversupply of milk and weaker consumer demand are causing dairy prices to fall.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The surge in demand helped put a significant dent in what’s been a vast oversupply of new homes on the market.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • But in the meantime, the state’s oversupply is considered the nation’s worst.
    — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That could result in the supply growth rate slowing, which means that this oversupply could be temporary.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This has created an oversupply of tinder that should have been cleared long ago by healthier fire cycles.
    — Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • When farmers complained about low prices, FDR blamed an oversupply of food.
    — John Stossel, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The current oversupply of marijuana itself has been pushing prices down for about a year.
    — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The second big tailwind for Ukraine has been falling oil prices driven by a global oversupply.
    — Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • For customers, this oversupply means cheaper butter.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Product names generally are an area of oversupply.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Overbuilding in the 2000s meant there was an oversupply of housing.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Demand drops, creating an oversupply of workers on the platform.
    — WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Retail growth, a key component in reducing oversupply issues, has been stagnant over the past year.
    — Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024
  • During the boom, many developers amassed huge debts, and the oversupply of housing led to whole ghost districts and empty projects in many places.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • If farmers are unable to sell all their soybeans, the crop remains stored for the next year, creating an oversupply that drags prices down even further.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 26 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • And if farmers are unable to sell all their soybeans, the crop will remain stored for the next year, creating an oversupply that could drag prices down even further.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
  • As a result, many whiskey producers are grappling with an oversupply of product, in addition to slowing sales growth.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • That has resulted in a temporary oversupply of apartments.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • While the volume of items bought remained about the same or even slightly increased, prices of cannabis dropped, caused by oversupply in cultivation markets.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

oversupply

2 of 2 verb
  • Longer-term effects also point to oversupply due to structural shots in both supply and demand.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • That oversupply and softening demand translates to downward pressure on prices, Cain said.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
  • That oversupply and softening demand translates to downward pressure on prices, Cain said.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That oversupply and softening demand translates to downward pressure on prices, Cain said.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The model is important for airline routes that have lower demand so airlines can avoid oversupplying the market with seats, pushing down fares.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Milk, butter and cheese prices on the wholesale market and at grocery stores have decreased slightly due to oversupply and weakening consumer demand.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Excess production in several sectors has also led to oversupply, forcing firms to cut prices to stay competitive.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Price volatility may persist, but the ability and willingness of the industry to rapidly oversupply the market has diminished.
    — Bryce Erickson, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Investors want oil companies to focus on returning profits to shareholders, not plowing cash into expensive drilling projects that could just oversupply the market once again.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • The beleaguered drugstore chain has been grappling with slowing sales, mounting debt and a slew of lawsuits that allege the company helped fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic by oversupplying painkillers.
    — Melissa Repko, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Houk was one of numerous Coloradans caught up in what federal investigators say was a years-long scheme by Zynex to oversupply medical devices and overbill patients seeking opioid-free pain relief.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But such dispensaries may be soon be out of business because of competition, oversupply and expected new regulations around the drug’s cultivation and sale, several cannabis industry experts said in interviews.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Oil prices notched their biggest annual loss since the Covid-19 pandemic last year, partly due to oversupply concerns, ratcheting up the pressure on Big Oil’s commitment to shareholder returns.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Governments must also address the incentives pharmaceutical companies have for profiting from oversupplying and overpromoting opioids.
    — Keith Humphreys, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018

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