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


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Instead, monthly “premiums” act as prepaid installments toward resort inventory and travel packages whose prices are locked in at wholesale rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Higher inventory and lengthening days on market give buyers improved negotiating power,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Brooksville is now nearly “fully automated,” said Montgomery, which means about 80% of inventory moves that way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Tesla delivered 22,141 more vehicles than it built in the third quarter, and selling cars from inventory releases cash that Tesla cannot keep drawing on indefinitely.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ba came up with the inventory ledger and a clipboard and settled in his chair beneath the gas lamp on the wall.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The supply squeeze has complicated Europe’s efforts to replenish gas inventories ahead of the heating season, leaving the region increasingly exposed to colder weather and renewed competition with Asian buyers for available cargoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Major retailers also are preparing for increased demand around the holidays and are stocking up and replenishing inventories, Seroka said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Tariffs are lower than the levels we saw earlier this year and last, giving importers more certainty on cost and allowing them to replenish inventories at a quicker rate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

U.S. crude inventories also fell unexpectedly last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

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

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

He had inventoried all that he had, or didn’t have.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

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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