inventory
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Pending a change in regulation, this will be the end of the line for releases from the reserve, which is required by statute to maintain a minimum inventory of about 250 million barrels of oil.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
In terms of longer-term trends Abouhossein argues that investment banking generally is transforming as a business model from a heavy emphasis on balance sheet and inventory, to something lighter and more geared to best-execution practices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
She still has other inventory left, but this time of the year is important for her business, as parents and students stock up for the new autumn term.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Additionally, customer inventory levels declined, remaining lower than historical norms, while steel backlogs and lead times increased, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Not yet. I need to empty my inventory first.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Hundreds of small businesses saw their inventories wiped out in the strike, triggering angry comments on social media.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Management broadly painted an optimistic view of next year, when it expects that companies and governments will look to replenish their inventories and solidify new supply connections as the war reshapes energy markets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Some vendors on social media expressed shock that their inventories had been torched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
If shipping traffic through Bab el-Mandeb is halted, global oil inventories would “drop dramatically, and crude prices would jump and remain high until a resolution is found,” Haigh said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
There were three of them, packed for a long journey, laden with gear, inventories lashed to the sides.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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“Helfenstein also evaluated and inventoried looted items, and arranged for their packing and shipment to Germany.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
In total, the rescission would apply to nearly 45 million acres of the nearly 60 million acres of inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest system, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
Repairing and updating the inventoried aircraft so they are airworthy takes about the same amount of resources as building an all-new aircraft, he added.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
First the scientists analyzed US government records that inventoried California kelp forests as far back as 1910, compared them with modern information about those same kelp forests today.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
Anya inventoried the list of potions as Mama recited them.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
"Carbon inventorying is still an evolving science," said Yunyu Zhang, lead author and graduate student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
I was squatting on the floor methodically inventorying my bounty to help streamline thank-you-card writing when my mother-in-law, who was visiting from Chennai, beckoned me over to our galley kitchen.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021
The phrase “three kinds of apples” lived in Bowler infamy, until, of course, I realized that in motherhood, the vast majority of my mental capacity would be consumed by inventorying items in case of emergency.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
The remaining grant money will be spent inventorying the state’s backlogged kits and investigating criminal cases against suspects identified through DNA, the state Attorney General’s Office said at the time.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2018
She held me at arm’s length, inventorying every little new freckle, every extra pound.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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