How to pronounce bottleneck

Listen to bottleneck in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“bottleneck” in real sentences

453 clips in the index · 111 American · 98 British · 7 Australian · 4 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. intelligence has had to pass through the narrow human bottleneck, the narrow bottleneck of human cognition.

    Oxford Union · hear it here

  2. from Asia, the bottleneck is widening.

    Channel 4 News · hear it here

  3. The bottleneck isn't rockets anymore.

    TED · hear it here

  4. a bottleneck in their own business.

    The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here

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