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inventory

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


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As sellers hold off on selling while they wait for a better housing market, current housing inventory levels have yet to match home-buying demand.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

But a stock count she conducted herself revealed a significant gap between inventory and sales receipts.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Dynamic or algorithmic pricing is when a business changes prices in real time based on market conditions such as demand, inventory and competitor rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Whitehaven’s inventory built by 1.0 million tons in 1Q.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I bring up my inventory of precious power-ups.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Gasoline may respond more quickly, said Yilmaz, while diesel could remain comparatively supported through winter because inventories are still tight and middle-distillate supply remains constrained.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Nasser said the pipeline had helped prevent oil prices from climbing even further during the conflict, while warning that global inventories remain below required levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“If markets were saturated, that would not be a big problem, but with inventories so thin, even the loss of 5-10 million barrels a week will keep prices elevated,” he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Oil prices rose as ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz faced continued attacks, while U.S. industry data showed a decline in crude product inventories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Many guardians would purchase, for their wards, goods from their own stores or inventories at inflated prices.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

The California Air Resources Board estimates that in California, agriculture is the source of 8% of total inventoried greenhouse gas emissions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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

He looks me over as if inventorying my whole being.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson


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