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inventory

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


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This year’s inventory has already arrived, but dealers are still worried about the possibility of future sticker shock.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

U.S. natural gas futures ended a choppy session little changed with some support from a below-average weekly storage build that trimmed the inventory surplus.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

But the independent watchdog said the US spent more than $22 billion on munitions from February through June, leading to "strategic inventory shortfalls".

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

But a Department of Defense's Inspector general released earlier this week said "the munitions expenditure on Operation Epic Fury has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply."

From Barron's

This precious inventory was interrupted by the sound of her voice.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

McKinsey estimates that the Philippines’s crude inventories could rise from eight days’ supply before the war to 10 weeks’ supply.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Building U.S. crude oil inventories also likely support oil, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Distillate inventories were seen unchanged in the Journal survey.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

U.S. distillate inventories, which include diesel, are 13% below their five-year average, according to the latest report from the Energy Information Administration.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

They wanted to shape things/design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody else’s taxes, and read somebody else’s X-rays from half a world away.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

“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

All of my gear was being disassembled, inventoried, tagged, boxed, and prepared for auction.

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

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

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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