stocktaking

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The report is the fifth annual stocktaking on food insecurity and hunger by U.N. agencies including the FAO, UNICEF, World Health Organization and World Food Program.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023

The WTO's main body the General Council met on Thursday behind closed-doors for a "stocktaking" session before the conference.

From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2022

Is the patient, persistent, stocktaking act of rapping itself still helping him reassemble his life?

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2021

It’s an exquisitely lush, star-speckled torch song, which refracts the late-in-life stocktaking of Piaf or Sinatra through the stasis and fatalism of Talking Heads’ Heaven.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2016

Even if Sister fails to pounce promptly on the evidence of the loss, the quartermaster's dread stocktaking will ultimately find you out.

From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Muir, Ward