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inventory

[in-vuhn-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈɪn vənˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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It was first mentioned in 1740 in an inventory of Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, drawn up following his death, the Château de Chantilly said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

When store managers who work in close proximity—say, at the Chicago and Wilmette locations—go on their quarterly buying trips to Paris, they keep an eye on whether the inventory they choose overlaps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

An initiative co-founded by McCormick, Climate TRACE, harnesses the technology to track emissions around the planet and build an inventory of the pollutants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

After the correction in gold prices in 2Q, margins were pressured by around 6 tons of inventory, but management has since reduced inventory targets to 15 days each for finished goods and raw materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the months since we’d arrived, Ba had taken inventory, cleaned and polished every item, and done everything he could think of to turn the store around.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

U.S. crude futures rose Thursday following the sharp decline in inventories, while Brent settled slightly lower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Distillate inventories dropped by 2.5 million barrels and remained 12% below their five-year average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

FMC is taking a hit for high channel inventories.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

"We have been able to provide emissions inventories to every city and a lot of them now can make a climate action plan," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The proposal would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted in the final days of the Clinton administration, which barred development across vast areas of public forests and grasslands designated as "inventoried roadless areas."

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Helfenstein also evaluated and inventoried looted items, and arranged for their packing and shipment to Germany.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

The model, called AviTeam, is the first to provide information for the 45 lesser-developed countries that have never inventoried their greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

In the interest of transparency — and reducing the shame women feel for having such procedures — she inventoried for Cooper the procedures she has and hasn’t had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

I inventoried my missing duffel, mentally taking the clothes out and placing them on the broad soft rug of my dad’s living room.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

The plan provides for the inventorying and storage of its remaining heavy weapons under Palestinian supervision, potentially removing the most significant obstacle to advancing the Trump-backed peace initiative for Gaza.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

"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

One by one, family members and friends speak this line to Vanya before inventorying their own monumental unhappiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

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

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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