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inventory

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


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The retailer needs a "mid-air engine swap" to rebuild its supply chain on diversified inventory sources beyond shipping directly from China, he added.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists’ inventory of planets outside our solar system, increasing it from about 6,300 planets to more than 100,000.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

He immediately went to work clearing warehouses of unsold inventory and trimming down Apple’s list of suppliers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

That could put the shrinking inventory of American antimissile interceptors to the test.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

I am sent into the freezer to do inventory for the second big job next week.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

U.S. crude oil inventories fell more than expected last week with refineries running near full capacity, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Maturing inventories show up as assets on distillers’ balance sheets until they are bottled and sold.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

A crisis may create opportunities for adversaries elsewhere, increasing pressure on finite inventories of weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Rémy Cointreau’s maturing inventories are double its latest annual sales tally.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

After restlessly starting and stopping concession inventories and making a few phone calls about delays in film deliveries, she did the only thing left to her and decided to watch a movie.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

Anya inventoried the list of potions as Mama recited them.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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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