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inventory

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


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It was able to negotiate away some of them, but took a $2.2 billion inventory charge in a single quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Creating an asset inventory should be the first step, said Michael DeMassa, a certified financial planner and founder of Forza Wealth Management.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Nationally, home prices are rising at a slow pace, as housing inventory remains relatively low.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Ed Stack, Dick’s executive chairman, said the sneaker market is awash with inventory and rivals slapping on discounts, which has pressured Foot Locker to keep pace.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Then it vanished, and a message flashed on my display informing me that the quarter had automatically been added to my inventory.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The EIA reported a 95,000 barrel increase in crude inventories, which was smaller than expected but still a fourth consecutive weekly rise.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Yet GDP was held down by a big increase in the trade deficit and a slower increase in inventories, or unsold goods.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

The result of strong consumer and business spending is that GDP would have grown almost 3% in inflation-adjusted terms in the second quarter had the trade deficit and inventories been neutral.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

“Both Canada and the U.S. have inventories, and so those have to be sold first — and this tit for tat has been going on for some time, so inventories might be higher than normal.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 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 repeal will primarily affect California and nine other Western states, which are home to more than 95% of inventoried roadless areas, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

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

A suspect isn’t supposed to take belongings from a crime scene before the items are inspected and inventoried.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

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

Once my trip was booked, I inventoried everything in my hideout and packed the items I wanted to take with me into an old rucksack.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Across North America, there are an estimated 170 fireflies species, which are technically beetles in the order Coleoptera, but inventorying them is a challenge.

From Salon Sep. 21, 2023

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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