inventory
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Sizing studies done on the SPR in the 1970s recommended an inventory minimum of 250 million barrels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
U.S. natural gas futures were still reeling from Thursday’s bigger-than-expected inventory build and news of Freeport LNG’s planned maintenance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He added that the median home price has hit an "all-time high," and that progress on long-term housing affordability could be hampered if inventory growth stalled further.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
He also noted that in parts of the country where inventory has been constrained, such as in New Jersey, bidding wars are still happening.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
I added her card to my inventory, and it appeared on my item list, right below the Copper Key.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Although jet fuel supplies are stabilizing, American diesel inventories are at the lowest levels since the early 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Commercial inventories in the U.S. rose 3 million barrels in the week ended Friday, according to the Energy Department, the first uptick after 10 consecutive weeks of drawdowns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Common munitions, compatible maintenance capabilities, pooled inventories, shared procurement—all were strengthened at the summit, helping to overcome the fragmentation plaguing much of European defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Energy Information Administration said that U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, rose by 3 million barrels in the week ending July 3.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Other times he ran messages, stood at guard, mucked out stables, fletched arrows, assisted Maester Aemon with his birds or Bowen Marsh with his counts and inventories.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
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
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
Apparently, some days in the State Shop were busy—the shop provided blue jeans and button-down shirts to inmates with court dates and inventoried the belongings of inmates on transfers—but this was not one of them.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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"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
In a April 2021 executive order, President Joe Biden told the US Forest Service to start inventorying and protecting the 150-year-old "old-growth" forests which face logging threats.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
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
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
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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