After 30 years, a saturation point may have been reached.
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"By around 2013, we were reaching a saturation point," she said.
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We have reached the saturation point for mudslinging in this election.
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It's very possible that the market has hit a saturation point.
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After all, 5G won't be hitting a saturation point this year.
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And, of course, the iPhone could have also hit a saturation point.
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It has clearly hit its saturation point and is beginning the decline.
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We've hit a clear saturation point when it comes to "unnatural" hair colors.
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And fast food in Kuwait has not yet reached a saturation point yet.
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There's a real question about whether the smaller brands are reaching the saturation point.
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The character hadn't reached the unrelenting saturation point it has now in pop culture.
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But are we reaching a saturation point where more competition is actually hurting us?
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Eventually, you just reach a saturation point, and Facebook seems to have found it.
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For starters, we've reached a saturation point with the mobile app stores in developed markets.
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It points to a sort of saturation point for apps, in terms of everyday use.
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Every headline feels like a new saturation point, but the spigot just continues to run.
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"Quebec' resources are at a saturation point," Quebec Immigration Minister David Heurtel told reporters this week.
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As obscure niches go, that's a pretty good sign "peak TV" is nearing its saturation point.
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Even at a saturation point, television, film, and new media are on a constant quest for content.
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If they have a saturation point, increases in carbon will eventually stop when that moment is reached.
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How much further can Facebook average revenue per user growth grow before that too reaches a saturation point?
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It's no surprise that brands have been extra cautious as sales have slowed, arguably hitting a saturation point.
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If you thought the gingham trend might be reaching its saturation point, this might be its saving grace.
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As with zombie stories and scripted police procedurals, it seems as if this genre has no saturation point.
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"We're thinking seriously about going beyond Korea because sooner or later we will hit a saturation point," Lee said.
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There's every reason to wonder if McDonald's has hit its saturation point—an issue that Starbucks hasn't yet encountered.
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Software-based products provide an opportunity for Apple to capture meaningful profit as iPhone sales reach a saturation point.
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But at the same time, you can't ignore a saturation point that we may be inching closer to domestically.
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That sparked a lot of concern that Apple's core engine may have — actually, most likely — has hit a saturation point.
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Overall, sales numbers of the iPhone have plateaued as Apple has reached or passed the saturation point in many markets.
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In the United States, where more than 75 percent of people already own smartphones, apps are approaching the saturation point.
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The company may not be as close to the saturation point of U.S. subscribers as some analysts may have thought.
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This trend suggests users are reaching a saturation point in terms of how much time they can devote to apps.
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The news follows similar trends at Facebook and Twitter, signaling that social media companies may have reached a saturation point.
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In the years since, China's demand for metallurgical coal has waned, as the nation's rapid industrial growth hit a saturation point.
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit the ground running when it came out in 2012 and reached its saturation point in 2016.
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The "French Touch 2.0" style—compressed, disturbed, glitchy—had enchanted me for ages, but I had finally reached my saturation point.
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But that's to be expected as the company's core growth engine — the iPhone — has started to reach a saturation point and slow.
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Some analysts say Netflix has almost reached the saturation point in the U.S. — meaning everyone who will subscribe to Netflix already has.
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The next Apple iPhone could signal the end for smartphones, as the market reaches a saturation point, according to an industry expert.
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The oil industry has said the targets were unachievable due to the "blend wall," the saturation point for ethanol content in gasoline.
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As the Northeast ramped up, the Midwest passed its saturation point and low oil prices put a damper on the southern markets.
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As passive funds reach saturation point in developed economies, they will train their sights more on the untapped pool of emerging ones.
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Though there's a limit to the amount of time one spends driving, with LED lights, there seems to be no saturation point.
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Goldman said Netflix had hit its saturation point for subscribers in the U.S., but the real sign for growth was among international numbers.
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I realized the saturation point we had gotten to when every rental car I get into now has CarPlay or Android Auto compatibility.
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Craggs said Chinese steel companies could over time reach a saturation point in China and will start to embark on manufacturing activities overseas.
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But there's another old rule in television: Whenever anything reaches such a huge saturation point as this, it's inevitably going to come crumbling down.
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But today some investors say newsletters are reaching their own saturation point as there are more and more of them clogging people's in-boxes.
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In addition, American refineries, generally designed for heavier crudes, are reaching a saturation point for lighter shale oil produced around Texas and North Dakota.
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However, as Facebook's growth slows as it reaches saturation point in many markets, there are indications that in some countries the platform is losing users.
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Nine courses of bacon later, I wondered if I had reached some kind of bacon saturation point, and if I would ever be hungry again.
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Smart locks are a long ways away from saturation point, but unlike devices like smartphones, they're unlikely to follow a predictable two-year upgrade cycle.
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The question now is whether we have reached the crystal saturation point when it comes to competition, or whether there is even further to go.
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"People are fed up, we have reached (the) saturation point," said Albin Kurti, one of the opposition members of parliament who is under house arrest.
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And yet over the past decade, as Copenhagen has reached hygge-seeker saturation point, Aarhus has emerged on its own terms as a design destination.
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The declines and flattening growth raise questions about whether the social media companies have reached a saturation point in some markets, especially in developed countries.
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The number of dip-netting permits has dropped a bit the past few years, leading to speculation that the fishery has reached its saturation point.
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The reason for all these fancy cars sitting idle at the world's biggest mobile phone show is indeed simple: the smartphone market is facing saturation point.
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Germany is a key growth market for Primark, which is expanding across continental Europe and the United States after nearing saturation point in Britain and Ireland.
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We've reached a total saturation point when it comes to music festivals, but that doesn't mean you can't find wonderful moments from killer artists like Potter.
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Yesterday's announcement of a collectible card game based on Dota 2 was the moment that the video game industry reached its saturation point with card games.
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It could just be a natural blip in the cycle, rather than a more worrisome indication that Alexa's skill store has reached a saturation point of sorts.
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Importantly, scientists are hoping to learn if the land and ocean will continue its intense rate of CO2 absorption, or if we'll eventually reach a saturation point.
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Netflix added just 370,000 subscribers during the third quarter and only 4.3 million since the third quarter of last year, suggesting they are reaching a saturation point.
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Furthermore, the fact that these are the most popular apps inherently means that the number of downloads will begin to decrease as they reach a saturation point.
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Nearly half of the smartphones sold in the United States are iPhones, and Apple may be reaching the saturation point among potential customers in other developed countries.
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"As the country is nearing to achieve saturation point... without an export take off manufacturing growth cannot be sustained and accelerated," the ICEA said in the document.
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The Colombian cocaine cartels were desperate to find new sales for their product once the North American market had reached a saturation point in the early 1980s.
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"It's now finally getting to a saturation point, where it's less about who can capture more market share than who can create more use cases," MacMillen said.
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Although my emotional life has always been characterized by surging highs and lows, after feeling so keenly for so long, I had finally reached my saturation point.
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James Corden's car gimmick Not that we didn't all sing along to the "Bah bah bah"s of "Sweet Caroline," but Carpool Karaoke is at its saturation point.
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To be fair, growth engines inevitably hit a saturation point, but this is something that Apple has been able to maintain since it launched the iPhone in 21.
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That blend wall represents what oil companies say is the 10 percent saturation point for use of ethanol in gasoline without a major overhaul in infrastructure and vehicles.
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We say this every month (probably every week), but perhaps we've reached a saturation point of people saying weird and/or dumb shit and getting attention for it.
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"These are resulting from socio-economic conflict and a need for real change, for greater civil rights against ruling elites that has reached a saturation point in Iraq."
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Metal-mania may have reached a saturation point at the recent Met Gala, where glittering guests were greeted by a phalanx of chrome-helmeted, silver-lashed cyber-models.
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Their reliance on freak shows to headline their events has probably reached a saturation point with the laughter that coincided with the co-main event on Friday night.
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But the drop suggests that Facebook usage has reached a saturation point in its first and most lucrative market, and could foretell similar usage drops around the world.
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That could be due to a number of factors — like slowing growth in China, hitting a saturation point — but either way its main growth engine appears to be slowing.
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Last year, the regulator said those Congressional targets were not realistic, acknowledging infrastructure constraints known as the "blend wall," the 10 percent saturation point for ethanol blended in gasoline.
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That may become a necessity, as some have warned it nears a saturation point in the U.S. China, a key potential growth market for Netflix, remains an open question.
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They've reached such a saturation point, in fact, that there's almost certainly a podcast out there that's perfectly attuned to your interests—and no great way to find it.
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Celebrity culture these days is at a saturation point, and people young and old -- male and female -- are bombarded all day long with images of beautiful people looking beautiful.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. When it comes to rolling news in football, we think it's fair to say that the internet is reaching saturation point.
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"This is about some folks being afraid that we're reaching our saturation point," said Paul Paradis, who owns a hardware store here and is chairman of the town council.
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It's the catch-22 of identifying with anything edgy, cool, or individual: At some inevitable saturation point, that edgy, cool, and individual thing becomes mainstream, played out, and boring.
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Maisie Café is something of a clean-eating rarity in the tony First, where traditional bistro fare — not to mention pricey burgers and fries — has reached a saturation point.
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Brass started to dominate a few years ago — call it 2014 or 2015 — when the home design market hit a saturation point with stainless steel and chrome, says Dailey.
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In oil markets, prices were buoyed Monday after Goldman Sachs issued a rare bullish call on oil, suggesting the market has gone from a near-saturation point to a deficit.
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"While FB could be reaching a saturation point in more developed markets, we believe there several levers to drive rev growth," Mizuho Securities analyst Neil Doshi said in a note.
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Netflix seeks to expand in Africa as it nears "a saturation point" for subscriptions in many developed markets, says Constantinos Papavassilopoulos, an associate director at market research firm IHS Markit.
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"I hate what Bethesda has become — the overbuilding has hit a saturation point and traffic is a nightmare," wrote Mr. Cook, who is the editor of the Cook Political Report.
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Trump's attacks on Biden — in public comments and on Twitter — have shown no signs of abating ever since the Ukraine news began to hit a major saturation point on Sept.
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"Italy still has the possibility of receiving the number of migrants they are receiving, but unless this responsibility-sharing kicks in efficiently, they will soon reach a saturation point," he said.
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Between 2015 and 2017 Hong Kong took off as mainland Chinese flocked to sign up to policies in a location with rule of law, but it has since hit saturation point.
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The critics are currently the louder of the two, claiming that particularly the full-time, campus-based MBAs have reached saturation point, with too many mediocre courses chasing too few candidates.
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There is a never-ending debate among political professionals as to whether fundraising can reach a saturation point, after which further expenditure on TV ads and other campaign staples becomes ineffective.
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Every historical inquiry has a saturation point, past which new inquiry becomes simply old inquiry repackaged, and, on that principle, it seems that we may at last have reached peak Beatles.
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"Industry is hitting saturation point, and people are saying, 'This is good, but why are you putting this next to a school?" says Jim Alexee, director of the Colorado Sierra Club.
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That would have meant having a sport dominated by India, Pakistan and Iran—much like cricket appears to have reached a saturation point with India, England and Australian boards calling the shots.
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When asked about how big he sees Netflix becoming globally, especially as the company hits a saturation point in the States and expands into international markets, he had one competitor in mind.
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The researchers called their findings alarming, suggesting that cardiovascular benefits from medical interventions may have reached a saturation point and that further improvements depend largely on changes in society and personal behavior.
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Its user base appears to be growing, though it's not clear when it'll hit that absolute saturation point where it has to start figuring out what the next generation of products looks like.
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Just like the idea of "peak oil" — the hypothetical point at which global oil production could max out — you could say we're approaching a saturation point for venture-capital investments in software companies.
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While it might seem that cycling is nearing a saturation point, at least on the coasts, Jenifer Ekstein, senior consultant at Vivaldi, said this is not reflective of the rest of the country.
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Even normally bullish Apple analysts like Katy Huberty at Morgan Stanley have predicted in recent weeks that iPhone sales could fall in 2016 as the smartphone market reaches its saturation point in developed markets.
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The move will allow Ola to look beyond ride-hailing and food delivery, two businesses that appear to have hit a saturation point in India, said Satish Meena, an analyst with research firm Forrester.
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While it took the smartphone market a decade to see this type of commoditization and price drops, the wearables market, which is only five years old, seems to have already reached its saturation point.
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Several Denver residents told VICE News over the weekend that, with the passage of legal marijuana legislation, the city felt like it was approaching a saturation point for drug use and cutting edge policy.
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Kate Conger of the NYT considers what that means: The declines and flattening growth raise questions about whether the social media companies have reached a saturation point in some markets, especially in developed countries.
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And yet, although it might seem to many like Baby Shark has reached a saturation point, a certain level of omnipresent universal existence, Dickson points out that in many respects, it's still a niche.
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At the end of 2017, television that's great and a small hit and not a cultural force is also television that hasn't had the fun sapped out of it by overindulged saturation point internet bullshit.
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This is typically referred to as TAM (total addressable market), and for a while it looked like Apple may have hit the upper bound of that as the iPhone hit a saturation point with consumers.
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The six-week gap between the two competitions was this year labeled "insane" by Kermode and Djokovic said on Wednesday the men's calendar was at saturation point and it would result in "two average events".
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The global market itself is reaching a saturation point, which means the biggest growth opportunities can be found in new platforms — an area in which Apple is behind and the competition is already moving on aggressively.
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For app store operators, carriers and handset makers, developing economies represent the biggest growth opportunity in general because smartphone adoption has reached saturation point in more mature markets and people are buying new devices less often.
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Just when it finally felt like we were getting to a saturation point, the sequel virus has mutated and jumped to the web: today, Lonelygirl15 has posted her first video to YouTube in over seven years.
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Rather than using the new data to push investors to buy stock, Wieser recommends caution because he believes that the we're approaching the saturation point when increases in digital ad budgets won't lead to increased sales.
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"We're not anywhere near reaching a saturation point for protest," said Michael Heaney, the author of "Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11" and a University of Michigan professor.
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"Amazon hasn't yet reached a saturation point in terms of subscriber growth and will leverage this year's Prime Day to add subscribers," said Greg Portell, lead partner in consulting firm A.T. Kearney's global consumer and retail practice.
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Neel asserts that "traditional methods of transforming class antagonism into racial difference are beginning to reach a sort of saturation point," but this halfway optimism seems unlikely: Trump's predecessors have created even more animus in the past.
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Consider this: While the LMS reached a saturation point among colleges and universities around 2003, it is only in the past 3-4 years that the vast majority of courses or faculty members routinely used an LMS.
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The National Police Chiefs' Council lead on child protection, Simon Bailey, stated last year that the police had reached "saturation point," and suggested that low-risk pedophiles should be spared jail to ease the pressure on law enforcement.
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But, just as desktop PCs eventually reached a saturation point where almost every home that could afford a computer had a decent one, smartphone shipments had to eventually hit a level at which demand for them tapered off.
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Piling into the sell-off, Stitch Fix investors are fearing that the company has "grown large" and that its new direct buy option "is a validation that fixes are reaching a saturation point," BMO retail analyst Simeon Siegel said.
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PARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - A spike in coronavirus patients means hospitals in and around Paris will reach saturation point within 48 hours, the head of the French Hospital Federation said on Friday, with the peak not expected until April.
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I would perch my laptop on a chair, and, keeping one hand dry, I would replay the Grouper song "Heavy Water" from her album Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill until the rest of me reached bath-water saturation point.
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The key is figuring out when an array of stalls will reach their "saturation point" — the moment at which every other stall is occupied and the next person who enters the bathroom will be forced to stand next to someone else.
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And yes, it's true that when you're trying to shift copies and encourage streams, it's important to market music in innovative and effective ways, but it's also true that it's very easy for that to spill over to saturation point.
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After it reached the saturation point of empty cities, China is now building out its "Belt and Road Initiative" that could add trillions of dollars to the debt-fueled stimulus scheme that has been spewed out over the world-wide economy.
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It's the same kind of problem that Netflix has had to grapple with as it tries to grow even as it may be reaching a saturation point — where everyone who could potentially want to use Twitter is already on Twitter.
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Read MoreNetflix waffles as saturation point looms Cuban took to Cyber Dust—his social media platform of choice where he frequently makes pronouncements about markets, politics and everything else—to let investors know that he was hedging his Netflix bet.
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With dewy sticks, strobing palettes, holographic creams, and rainbow luminizers all just a trip to Sephora away, it can certainly start to seem like we've reached the saturation point of just how out-of-this-world radiant one's skin can be.
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After the Nazi porn, I had definitely hit my personal saturation point, and as the crowd had thinned out a bit since it was late, I put three of the metal-and-scratchy-red-fabric chairs together and tried to sleep.
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But that growth has slowed markedly this year, as both the iPhone and smartphones in general approach their global saturation point, and the problem of reconciling one-off purchases with an ongoing support service is growing into a starker issue.
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Behind the concern for the north, where intensive care and assisted breathing units were at saturation point, there was also a looming worry over the much less well-equipped south, where tens of thousands have arrived from the affected regions.
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Though it's about as daunting as March's Armory Show, the bigger and generally more sparsely hung booths at Frieze mean you won't reach your visual saturation point quite as quickly, plus the ride to Randall Island is a pleasant palate-cleanser.
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Driving the news: IMF researchers Christian Bogmans and Lama Kiyasseh found that once a nation's average annual income reaches a certain level — $55,000 — the country hits what is called an energy saturation point, and thereafter, the growth of energy consumption begins to fall.
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To be clear, I'm not drawing a causal link between social media and mental health issues in musicians, but we are reaching a saturation point with these apps that could do with a closer look when it comes to artists and their mental health.
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In the weeks leading up to Apple's quarterly earnings announcement, analysts and supply chain reports warned of a slowdown in iPhone sales as the smartphone market reaches its saturation point — not to mention the fact that Apple is in between major product upgrade cycles.
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Outdoor games will never disappear completely, as they are cash cows, but reaching a saturation point in 2014 has probably killed the potential of the Winter Classic ever becoming a needed yearly national draw for a league that can't break free from its niche roots.
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It's that viral tweet about the young cheerleader, though, that has been credited by internet-culture sites like The Daily Dot with finally bringing "big mood" to its mainstream saturation point, making the phrase fair game for use by established media, moderately hip parents and corporate brands.
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It's used to clearly communicate letters over radio, and begins Alpha, Bravo, Charlie for A, B, C. Add-a-letter and remove-a-letter gimmicks have each been done to the saturation point, so these days it's challenging to come up with a fresh and entertaining take.
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The auto industry's slow, somewhat grudging acceptance of government policy on renewable fuels and bumper car sales will ultimately challenge the petroleum industry's concept of a "blend wall" - a 20013 percent saturation point for ethanol in motor fuel if there is no overhaul in vehicles and at the pump.
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If there are five stalls, the saturation point looks like this (the o's are open stalls and the x's are occupied stalls): X O X O X In this five-stall scenario, it's best to choose an odd-numbered stall if you're the first person to enter the bathroom.
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But while e-commerce is still growing—its market share hovers around 10 percent, meaning that we still have a long, long way to go until we reach a post-retail world—Prime is reaching a saturation point, especially with Amazon's middle- and upper-class base of customers.
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If you choose the stall farthest from the door, the array becomes saturated with three occupants: X O O X O O X It may seem better, then, in this seven-stall scenario, to take the third urinal from the end, which would result in a saturation point of four.
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"It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me," Collins told FHM in 2011, as he looked back on the arc of his wildly successful career, and saw that the public was reaching a saturation point with music that sounded the same, covered the same themes, and never really grew up.
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At the risk of sounding like a Black Mirror scriptwriter, we've reached a saturation point online of people gleefully hiding behind the relative anonymity of their profiles, arguing for the sake of it and trying to apply homo economicus reasoning (itself a construct) to every statement with which they so desperately must disagree.
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The number of ads it's able to show users within certain products started reaching saturation point back in 2016, and recent algorithm changes that prioritize content posted by family and friends have reduced the amount of time users spend on Facebook by about 20173 million hours per day, or about 5 percent of total engagement.
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To put this in context, Landgraf — who has a reputation among critics for being particularly intelligent and open about how the TV business works — actually told the same room of reporters just a year ago that 2016 would hit "peak TV," or a saturation point of content akin to a balloon that inevitably has to deflate.
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That perspective is echoed by Jason Cahill, managing director at McCune Capital Management, a New York-based seed and early-stage tech investor that launched this year "I sense we're nearing a saturation point when it comes to startups with mass consumer appeal, like social sharing apps, ride sharing, as well as fintech and adtech," Cahill told Crunchbase News.
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" As for whether the newsletter boom might eventually reach a saturation point, making it harder for new titles to find an audience, Best acknowledged that there's probably "some finite limit" to the number of newsletters that most readers will subscribe to, but he said, "Even if that's the case, it can still be a very successful model.
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The dispensary Eden had five locations at the time and 15,153 members alone, and Weeds Glass and Gifts had some 20 locations spread throughout the province of BC. However, hitting what appears to be a saturation point and the city of Vancouver's decision earlier this year to regulate the existing dispensaries has seemingly slowed the spread.
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Coming out with a new product that hits a snag with connectivity issues, however, is not a good look as it tries to convince consumers and Wall Street that it's about to re-ignite demand in a smartphone market that is starting to hit a saturation point — hence the dumping of a few billions of dollars in value.
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"Despite slowing economic growth in these developing markets, their people are confident in their markets' economic growth potential, as well as improvements in their personal finances for the year," Legrand told CNBC Make It. "Likewise, the contrasting levels of optimism between developed and developing markets suggest that people in developed economies may believe that their market has reached a saturation point in terms of actual economic growth," he added.
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Why it matters: The reason the percentage growth of usage of technologies like mobile, internet and social media is declining is because those technologies have reached a saturation point in the U.S. 95% of Americans own a cellphone; 77% own a smartphone 89% of Americans use the internet; 69% use social media Between the lines: As Axios has noted previously, social media use on open networks is also declining as more people transition their social communication online to encrypted messaging networks.
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